One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.
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My books are just pure escapism for kids.
When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school.
I'm a very girlie girl, but I often find the heroes of my books trying to take over the story. In truth, I enjoy writing the male point of view more than any other.
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.
I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.
Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.
I'm an escapist kind of writer.
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.
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