If things get too squicky for you, you can stop wherever your comfort zone is! Hooray! I understand not everyone is cool with such dark content, so each book in the series could potentially be read as a standalone. The third, however, is definitely not YA-friendly, and I tried to emphasize that with a bold disclaimer in the summary. Only the first two books-Fearscape and Horrorscape-could really be classified as YA (the second one is more NA).
The Horrorscape trilogy is about a girl who gets entangled with a card-carrying psychopath: a psychopath who's totally obsessed with her, and will literally stop at nothing to possess her. MGO: Tell us a little bit about your YA series? My parents are also pretty supportive, but I feel like they're torn on the issue since it's not the most lucrative of professions and they don't want to encourage me to do something that will end up with me living on the streets like the proverbial “starving artist.” His advice, for example, about waiting a few weeks before proofreading so as to reread your drafts with clear eyes-I love that. When I read his book On Writing at age fifteen or so, it really put a lot of things into perspective for me. MGO: Who would you say influenced you the most to become a writer?Īlso, Stephen King. I can just picture it now-TV interview, camera focused on me peering out from behind an armchair at Katie Couric, the microphone picking up on a very tiny, “eep.” If I ever become a famous writer, this could potentially be a very bad thing. I'm really quite shy, and until I started college the idea of public speaking made me want to hide under a table. Especially one with a shiny gold foil that says nice things about me in Latin. And you know what? No harm came of it! (Take that, elementary school teachers!) I have a BA in psychology and graduated from my university with honors-which sounds more impressive than it is, since it turns out you can't actually do much with a BA in psychology.
I'm 24-years-old, and still letting my imagination run away with me.
Writing is basically for adults who never grew out of playing “let's pretend.” As a kid, I was a total whiz at coming up with “let's pretend” games. I don't think becoming a writer was ever really a conscious decision storytelling has always been an activity I enjoyed doing. What made you decide you wanted to be a writer? MGO: Tell us a little bit about yourself.
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