I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.