Erica: I still work at a law firm. It has less to do with any sort of publicity than it does the fact, similar to what I was just saying, so it's great transition, I didn't want the book to be about me. I think it loses its value as soon as people start dismissing it as a true story because people will make assumptions about me. People will start to talk about what firm I'm involved in. I think my next statement might surprise people. I'm worried that it will curtail the honest conversation about the character and the protagonist and where she made mistakes. I wonder if people are just so much more comfortable talking about faults of people who don't exist. I don't want it to be some sort of value judgement on my life. First of all, it's fiction. Second of all, I think people are reluctant to say, god, Alex really made a mistake by doing X, Y, and Z. Where was she wrong? Where did she really mess up? Where was she not a friend of women? Where were she an aggressor to her friends? Things like that. I think fiction is a really beautiful vehicle for doing that. The fact that my life parallels hers in any capacity I think makes people dismiss it as nonfiction.