What's the story behind your latest book?
Things You Can Do With A Brick - interesting story. I'd read Marbles by Ellen Forney, and at one point she discusses tests of creativity, and her example was thinking of how many uses you could find for a brick. And there'd been a preview of a movie where police interrogators were making a woman stand on a brick. The two came together in my head one night, and the first draft of the story came out in a rush. It's stylistically unusual, but I'm pleased with it.
When did you first start writing?
I'm not sure exactly when I started. Like many kids, I was making up stories from an early age. In second grade, a poem I wrote was included in our school district's magazine. After that, I grew up with the idea of writing and being a writer.
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