Goodreads asked Allyson Rice:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Allyson Rice I love that you can set your own hours, and you can write wherever you happen to be, no office needed. But the best part for me is the process of world-building. I love all the research that goes into it even when it's fiction–the discovery part of that is exciting to me. Even if you're not creating the world itself from scratch, like a sci-fi story, you get to choose the elements that are included in the world in the book, and how they intersect, and what ramifications those intersections create. You choose the people who are in the story (or maybe they choose you!) Like the Ricky Gervais movie "Ghost Town" where all these dead people started talking to him. Why? Simply because they realized he could hear them. It felt like that with a lot of the characters in my novel. They were talking to me about themselves because they realized I could hear them.

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