The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.

Some people come into your life and leave a mark.

And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

he's a story i want to know from page one