Jennifer Vido: What inspired your debut novel, THE TRUTH ABOUT BEN AND JUNE? Alex Kiester: My most organic writing happens when I explore my fears, and at the time I began my novel, my biggest fear was the ambivalence of entering into parenthood. In most capacities, I know what I want from my life, yet I’ve never known whether or not I want kids. And as this is one of the biggest decisions anyone can make ambivalence about it can be terrifying. Over the years, I’ve dealt with this fear like any writer would—by pawning it off onto my unsuspecting fictional characters. The book originated as one simple scene between a husband and wife who have just discovered the woman is pregnant and are deciding whether or not to have the baby. While these characters later became my protagonists, Ben and June, they started as nothing more than the two conflicting sides of my brain. Eventually, I decided they were going to have the baby, and the rest of the book snowballed from there.   Jen: How would you describe Ben and June’s relationship? Alex: At the start of the novel, Ben and June’s relationship is broken. For many months…