I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

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.

Ethan couldn’t possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush.

It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.

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.