In 2017, I tagged along on my husband’s business trip to Australia, and on our return flight, we left Sydney on Feb. Louis three hours later, she and the other passengers are informed their plane disappeared-25 years ago. Your Life Has Been Delayed is about 17-year-old Jenny, who boards a plane in New York in 1995, but when she lands in St. Tell us about the book and what inspired you. I do all the adulting stuff, but I wish I didn’t have to!Ĭongrats on your debut YA novel book, Your Life Has Been Delayed. I love reading it, I love writing it, and I think in many ways I’m stuck in that age. Middle grade and young adult books were rare when I was a kid, so I did a ton of research! I wrote a few MG books before discovering my voice was a better fit for YA. Then, about 10 years ago, I had this dream for a story with a middle-grade protagonist. I discovered romance novels when I was about 11 (young, I know!), but although I tried writing those, they weren’t the right fit for me.
It probably had to do with whatever I was reading at the time (maybe R.L. I used to write my own stories for fun strangely, those early ones were often horror stories. I’ve always loved writing, from when I was in elementary school. Tell us about yourself and how you came to write for teens.
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