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'History Is All You Left Me' is about the loss of your first love and how you move on beyond that and if you can.
'They Both Die At The End' is about coming face to face with your own mortality.
Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.
All my books center around death in some way.
Being more happy than not helps you get up every day.
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.
Especially with grief and heartbreak, you can go through these things and think, 'I will never be whole again.'
For me, I remember being 19 and coming out as bi to all of my friends. I'd had girlfriends, and all of these experiences and such, and then, as I got older, I started identifying as gay.
Having a book published whenever is a huge honor.
I don't think I'm capable of giving a character every possible victory, no matter how much I love them, without feeling as if their ending isn't genuine to their actual trials.
I had definitely missed the literary development game with Paper Lantern Lit, and writing exclusively wasn't giving me complete fulfillment.
I have OCD and, literally, walking on the left, needing things to be in even numbers with few exceptions. One and seven, any number that ends in seven, that's all me. All the tics like the pulling of the ear and scratching of the palms, all me.
I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.
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.
I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't.
I'm building this reputation as YA heartbreaker, I know. Some people like 'happily ever after,' but I don't think that's me.
I'm definitely of the 'Harry Potter'-transfigured-me-into-a-reader-and-writer generation. And that's really all I read throughout my teen years, because I really devoted all my time to writing and reading friends' fan-fiction.
It wasn't until I hit 20 that I became an obsessive reader, I think, which feels a little funny considering I was a bookseller for five years and have been reviewing YA novels for four years.
My favorite uncle died when I was eleven, and that was two months after 9/11, so that was a particularly difficult time with my family.
My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters come from single households. That was something that, when I lived in South Bronx, that's what it was like.
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