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Here’s one of the questions posed on the blog:

Tell us about your favorite reading genre, including your favorite book and author.

I love contemporary young adult novels. I’ll read a variety of genres (including memoirs, biographies, and romance), but contemporary YA is my favorite to read, and it’s my favorite to write. There’s a complexity to that genre many don’t see, because they think that writing about teens is easier in some way than writing adult fiction or non-fiction. But there are so many issues that teens deal with that can be explored in the YA genre, and I can’t pass that up – not reading or writing-wise. I have many favorite books, but if I had to choose one, I’d say ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ by J.K.Rowling. Even though it doesn’t specifically fit into the contemporary YA genre, there is realism in the magical world that exists in the story, and definite YA themes. I also love any YA books by Sonya Sones, Meredith Zeitlin, and many more wonderful authors.