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Courage reaches very directly to the heart of why I write. It’s not easy navigating the teen years.
Obviously, every parent has their own version of these issues; these are just some of ours. But it’s a delicate balance, and we’re well aware of our risk of wobbling a bit as we try to strike it.
I was almost finished writing “The Picasso Curse” when the theme of the book occurred to me—decision anxiety.
When an author bears witness to the experience of adolescence through a real, living, breathing, complicated, messy protagonist caught in a web of complicated, messy relationships, readers notice.
In sisterhood, you see various versions of yourself, souls raised in the same forage yet emerging in various shapes and conditions.
In eighth grade, I was scared of the world finding out the truth about me. But I think, even scarier, was admitting that truth to myself.
How I ended up writing Junius Leak and the Spiraling Vortex of Doom and The Vanishing of Lake Peigneur, two companion books sprung from a single seed.
Next time you’re worried you’re not quite as alone as you think, remember that not all spooky encounters are what they seem. And you’ll maybe even get a fun story out of it.
Get a sneak peek at CHAMPION, which comes out on September 2.
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