Alma Andersson asked Gena Showalter:

When I read the first two books of your "The White Rabbit Chronicles" (I still haven't read the third one! But I'm on it) I noticed that except from some references, there wasn't much related to Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", how come you chose to include these references and what was your main inspiration for the books?

Gena Showalter In both books, Alice falls into a strange new world, seems to lose everything, meets friends and enemies alike, there's a pool of tears (literally in his, figuratively in mine) there's mystery -- who to trust, where to go, what to do next -- gruesome death (off with their heads!) possible insanity, tea party/kegger. I took little things and twisted them to become my own, and while there may not seem to be a connection, there is. As with the pool of tears, what is literal in one might be figurative in the other.

When I first wrote Alice in Zombieland, I wrote your typical zombies. But afterward I got very sick and spent about 2 months bed bound. I read the bible a lot, which talks of good vs. evil and spirit vs. sprit. That’s when it hit me like a bolt of lighting. THAT’s what my book was missing. Spirit zombies fighting the spirits of slayers :)

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