I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009.
We love what we love, and shared fandoms bring people of all ages and backgrounds into one great tribe.
I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.
Writing is the easy part. The 'getting it right' part is harder.
I'm up at dawn. I practically fall asleep at dinner.
I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them.
At heart, I would have to say I'm a pantser. I fully embrace the chaos of letting the unintended happen, on life and on the page.
It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.
Alden Ehrenreich is a drama nerd, and Alice Englert is indie girl. They're so cool in the way that our characters are cool.
When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.
You better have your story down before you take it to a teenager.
I grew up sitting in my closet waiting to go Narnia.
I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.
I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.
I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy.
I fictionship. I love fictional men.
I always say, 'I'm cracked. My characters are cracked. And you, reader, you're cracked, too.'
You need books to read and readers for books.
