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• My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because…
• I get a message from my dad. In the mood I'm in, I tear up to see his name in my inbox,…
• I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.
• There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was…
• Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away.…
• Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
• I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.
• I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
• I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.
• I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to…
• I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story…
• The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

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