I wanted to do something different, to stretch my legs a bit. I had just finished writing Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, the second Gallagher Girls book, and like most sequels it was very challenging to write. But what was it that specifically triggered Heist Society's plot? Since the Gallagher Girls series is set in a school for spies-in-training, it seems a logical jump for you to write about young thieves. I discovered I felt much more at home with my young adult voice than I've ever felt with adult romance or adult chick-lit. And then I wrote I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You, before writing another book for adults, Learning to Play Gin, also published by Berkley. So after working a day job for several years, I decided to focus on my writing.ĭid you immediately gravitate toward writing for young adults?Īctually, I first wrote an adult novel, Cheating at Solitaire, which Berkley published. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.Īnd did you then pursue writing in school? Hinton's The Outsiders sparked my interest in writing. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E.
Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years.
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