Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it made me feel to see her smile and wave at me. You can have your sunsets and waterfalls. If a piano were to suddenly fall on my head, that's the image I'd want forever engraved in my mind. —Alton Richard

Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.