Goodreads asked Allyson Rice:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Allyson Rice All I knew when I started was that I wanted to write a story where someone is trying to get somewhere, obstacles keep getting in the way, and the landscape is populated with funny supporting characters. A fun movie in the 80s called After Hours with Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette was an initial, basic inspiration, but I wanted the location to be larger than one city. From there, it was all about answering questions that came up. Who is the protagonist, where is she trying to go, and why? Then whenever I hit a "well, that won't work because..." I had to figure out what needed to happen in the story to make it work. I also love the crazy characters in Carl Hiaasen's books, so that was in my mind when I came up with the supporting characters that my three protagonists run into on their strange journey. Basically, I wrote a story that I would love to read. A story that would make me laugh out loud throughout the entire book but also had some serious themes with emotional punch woven in.

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