What inspired you to become a writer?
I started reading really young and the bookstore my family went to was pretty small. By eight or so I'd run out of things I wanted to read and decided if I couldn't find a book I was looking for, I would simply write my own. At the time it seemed to make perfect sense. And then I just fell in love with it. Everything about story just fascinates me, from the characters to the conflict to the sentence structure. I've never loved anything the way I love a well-told story.
