Goodreads asked Laura A. Diaz (a.k.a. L. Diaz):

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

Laura A. Diaz (a.k.a. L. Diaz) I was having a Facebook conversation with one of my friends from high school that brought up a lot of old issues and memories, not all bad, mind you. Consequently, that same evening one of my middle grade students, from a Wednesday night Bible Study I teach, asked me (very serious conversation), what happens if someone dies and they’ve never heard the gospel. We had just gone over Romans chapter one that says all are ‘without excuse.’ It’s a hard concept to grasp. I told him that our God is bigger than that. If we trust that verse to be true, then we have to know that He’s not gonna let anything get in His way. Because He is both just and loving, somehow someway that person will have the opportunity to either reject or accept Him.

Well, like I said, that’s a hard concept for anyone, especially a teenager, to get their head around. What if someone really had never heard or given the time of day to anyone trying to share with them? What if? So I went to sleep with those two conversations in my head and woke up at three in the morn-ing only to find myself madly typing out the rough draft of Blanca’s story.

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