Ivory Apples is the name of a much beloved novel by Adela Madden, a writer who has since gone into hiding. But it’s also the name of a new, horror-adjacent fantasy novel from author Lisa Goldstein, which is about someone looking for Madden because they think her version of Ivory Apples isn’t just a good story. Confused? Don’t be. In the following email interview about her Ivory Apples (paperback, Kindle), Goldstein explains how it all works, and what other books inspired her novel.