Although my guilty pleasure is anything "Star Wars" (I'm in the looooong process of reading every SW novel), what I read most is actually teen/YA fiction. My obsession started several years ago when one day I had nothing to read so I picked up my son's copy of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone. Needless to say, this was all it took. I loved it. I immediately rushed out and bought the remaining 2 books (since that was all that was out at the time). I have since read the whole series twice, and have become equally entranced with D.J McHale (Pendragon series), Darren Shan, Rick Riordan, Andrew Clements, Eoin Colfer, Nancy Farmer and Mark Walden (to name a few).
I have always written as a hobby. I have dabbled in screenplays, a comic book series, and short stories. But my interest in this age group sparked a newfound love for young adult fiction. I have been working for a couple of years now on my first YA novel, and am digging deep for the motivation to finally get it completed.
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