Angela R. Watts asked Brian McBride:

Do you ever 'base' your characters off of real life people?

Brian McBride Actually, yes! Many of my characters either are representative of an individual in my life past or present, or an embodiment of several individuals. For example, in Love and the Sea, Jeremiah and Oliver were the embodiment of all my former friends at my first school who didn't stick by my side. Adam, too, is representative of myself at the time (this was about 5 years ago). In Every Bright, Liam and Ezra are both facets of me, my beliefs, experiences, personality, and struggles. Their parents were actually based on my own parents!

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