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

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

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 definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

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.