JoAnn Chaney is the author of As Long as We Both Shall Live: A Novel.From her Q&A with Deborah Kalb:
Q: How did you come up with the idea for As Long As We Both Shall Live, and for your characters Matt and Marie?--Marshal Zeringue
A: ALAWBSL came about in the same way most of my ideas do—it starts with a real situation and becomes something more. I was watching Dateline one night and saw the story of a Colorado man who had two wives die under suspicious circumstances and my imagination picked up from there.
As for Matt and Marie, I wanted to write about a successful, nice couple you might see anywhere. A couple you’d think has everything going for them, including the perfect marriage, and then the reader gets to see the rot underneath. Every relationship has problems, but this one—oh man, this one has...[read on]