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I truly, firmly, believe that anyone can write a book. The thing that stops most people, isn’t talent, it’s time.
I was naive. I didn’t think we needed Almost Sunset.
This story begins with two middle school librarians, miles and miles apart, who both feel passionately that what publishers call middle grade literature is not what their students need or want.
Slowly but surely a story formed in my mind. It featured a mystery, ghosts, clever tweens, a notorious graveyard . . . and a countdown. A terrifying countdown.
We create the place we live in, but it also creates us, and it’s impossible to tell where one influence starts and the other begins.
Most people can’t imagine a world without the worst of human nature because that would be the purview of a different species: a post-miserable humankind.
I’m convinced that pumping books instead of iron is a better way of dealing with the insecurity and isolation affecting so many kids these days, especially boys.
This is what I’d like to pass along to young readers: No one is perfect. Every one of us has our flaws, but we can grow and change, make a difference and achieve great things.
Benthic burrows, rabbit holes, whatever you call them: they are detours well worth the extra mileage. And mostly—they’re not even detours. They’re part of the journey.
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