Goodreads asked Joseph LoGuidice:

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

Joseph LoGuidice Blue Baby was first published as a short story in 2010 in Toasted Cheese. I had come across an article about a nine-year old boy in Long Island, NY who had a disease called HLHS (hypoplastic left heart syndrome), and needed a heart transplant. The story brought me back to when I was a teenager looking to buy a car. I went to a house and met a beautiful blond girl in a sundress who had a thin, red scar between her chest. I came to find out she was born with a severe heart defect, and had endured several surgeries. You never know when or how the inspiration will strike, and I didn't question it when these two happenings combined and became my fuse.

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