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Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

I'm a very visual person, and I love opening beautiful books on art or design and looking through them.

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters.

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

I love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and illustrators give to them. And most of all, I love writing novels because of the inner, emotional journeys that they take me on. Hopefully, the reader comes with me!

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

I like working in children's books because it gives rise to such a variety of jobs. One month it may be a picture book, the next a retelling, the next a play, a short story or the start of the next novel.