1. What was the catalyst to your writing career?
It started off with writing a diary, then evolved into writing stories in the form of passed notes with my friends in the hallways in high school. It finally blossomed into my first novel, NEMESIS, written in my senior year of high school. My AP English teacher tricked me into it by suggesting I write a ‘short’ story on the giant brick of a ‘laptop’ they gave our class. For every sentence or paragraph I typed, she kept saying, “Type a little more.” By graduation I had a full-length novel and I sent it to an agent after much research. The agent wrote back a very nice letter saying my book was too violent to be a love story, in spite of the ‘vampire horror’ genre tag on the title page.
After that, I gave up on getting published, but I…
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