He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

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

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.