What are you working on next?
I have just finished A Rebel Comes of Age, a young adult novel which will be released Dec 21, 2013. It's the sequel to A Battle for Tomorrow. In A Rebel Comes of Age, Ange is a year older (17), and she and four other homeless teenagers occupy an empty commercial building owned by Bank of America. As they slowly transform it into a teen homeless shelter, Ange goes into crisis mode when the other residents decide to use firearms to keep a police SWAT team from evicting them.
What's the story behind your latest book?
I was intrigued by a review of my first novel, The Battle for Tomorrow, that cautioned parents my book was a carefully crafted handbook on how to manipulate vulnerable teenagers into a "socialist " political agenda. The comment intrigued me so much that it inspired a sequel. In the second book in the series, Ange is a year older (17) and less susceptible to the efforts of older adults to manipulate her.
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