They subjected her to conversion therapy. And I really took that to heart and my storybrain started working on the question, "What did Leelah need in her life that she didn't have so that she could have survived the situation that she found herself in?" She had a family that did not welcome or accept her. That sort of went viral when it happened and I was aware of it and people were doing online eulogies for her and so on. There was a real-life trans girl named Leelah Alcorn who committed suicide in 2014 who left behind an eloquent note on Tumblr and among the things she said was, "Please make sure my life means something." And I really was hit hard by that. If I get to write more Zenobia books, which I certainly hope I do, then I want to develop a long arc of her solving cyber mysteries. So my detective works in cyberspace instead of the real world and is a teenage transgender girl. I've always wanted to write a super-detective in the Sherlock Holmes vein. There were three separate inspirations for this book. Can you tell us a little bit about how you first thought about writing Zenobia July?
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