The Baby-Sitters Club, Sweet Valley High, and Famous Five opened up new worlds to me – worlds I could actually be part of, and exist in, at the same time as the physical one I knew. At 14, I was burning through books accessible to me like wildfire, much to the disadvantage of my academic […]

I always said that if anyone ever cared to ask, I would be honest about not growing up wanting to be a writer. Because it’s true; I dabbled here and there, but it wasn’t until I was almost thirty years old that I got serious about writing. I’d been a lifelong reader, and I’d built […]