![]() You describe how you found solace and escape through books. It became necessary to find a better way to convey the things that happened to me, and third person worked really well. So many of the events in this story-the time in the Philippines and in the woods, or when the librarian gave me the notebook and that bright yellow brand-new pencil-still have a profound effect on me. ![]() I wanted to view the more ragged events from my past objectively and not become immersed in who angered me or didn’t anger me. My life has been interesting, to say the least-terrifying in places. It was actually a suggestion from my agent. The main character is known for most of the book as “the boy.” Why did you choose to write from this perspective? It was a memoir in that sense, but I wrote it in third person so that I could view it a little more abstractly. ![]() This book shows the pivotal points in my life where things changed abruptly and catapulted me to the next stage. Then Wes Adams, my editor, and my agent, Jennifer Flannery, strongly suggested that I make it one book. ![]() I initially thought of doing several books about my life. ![]()
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