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I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't.
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When I really want to be comforted myself, what I look for is a story about how somebody could survive something really difficult.
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There are happy stories out there, but I think some of them may raise false expectations for teens.
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I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.
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Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.
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All my books center around death in some way.
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I was very lucky to befriend many authors before even signing with an agent, and they were all so supportive of me when I told them I was in the middle of my first book.
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Death is the one - the one thing we don't have many answers for. We understand how people die, but we don't know what comes next, and that's something that's always fascinated and disturbed me and frustrated me.