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I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.

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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.

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Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

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I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.

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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

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Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.

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I travel to a lot of schools, and I see firsthand that while we do still have a lot of traditional readers, we don't have as many as we used to. And we're missing an awful lot of kids entirely... Do I want to get rid of the Internet? Obviously, I don't want that because of all the amazing things it brings.

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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.

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When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try to scare me. I always did the same thing in response.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 27th, 1966

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