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I try to imagine the scenes as I'm writing them as if I were watching them play like a film.

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I went to film school, trained as a director, have made a lot of movies, and taken a lot of photographs, so I tend to envision things spatially. As I'm working, I need to have a map of the space. I need to know what's happening in all corners simultaneously.

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Just the textures of things are really important to me as I'm writing; I think atmospherics and visuals can have such emotional impact if you can harness the thematic thread between how scenes look and how your characters feel. I like to tug on that thread.

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The end of 'Hollow City' left the peculiar children in a very precarious spot, and that's just where 'Library of Souls' begins.

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I think 'Hollow City' only took a year and a half to write... but it felt like two and a half!

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I loved the 'Chronicles of Narnia.'

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John Bellairs's young adult mysteries were great - and super creepy.

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Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.

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I was in the same class of 100 kids from grade 6 through 12, many of whom I still call friends.

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When you're looking through bins of thousands of random, unsorted photos, every hundredth one or so will have some writing on it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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