Pete Wood, Seth Blum, and Sean Cole are attorneys in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Pete Wood based his original short story partially on Clifford D. Simak's 1944 science fiction story, "Huddling Place." Pete wrote "Quantum Doughnut" in 2016 after he and his wife had dinner in a North Carolina restaurant and the man at the next table talked so loud he drowned out most of their conversation.
Mad Monk Donuts, the fictional location of the film, makes another appearance in "Each Dawn a Jubilee," also by Peter Wood. Page and Spine Fiction Showcase published the story online on July 24, 2020 and July 31, 2020 in two parts.