![]() LGBTQIA+ stories were hard to come by when I was a teenager. I think I gravitate toward young adult books mostly because those are the books that shaped me as a storyteller, but also because I saw a real lack of stories about people like me when I was growing up. I remember my mom making a huge deal out of that fact when she brought the book home for me and then I connected the dots. ![]() I didn’t really understand that being an author was a real job that I could grow up to have until I came across a novel that was written by a teenager. I wrote my first story down on actual paper when I was in fifth grade, and I kind of just kept going from there. ![]() ![]() When I was little, I would spin outrageous tales for my parents-they’d probably call it lying but… semantics. ![]()
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