This is a hard one! I think this would be a toss-up between My Family and Other Animals, by Gerard Durrell, and I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith. If you could have written one book in history, what book would that be? Seeing their excitement reminds me that this is really happening, which remains so hard for me to believe. My kids made a miniature copy of The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone with my mom’s help, and my daughter took a big stack of my bookmarks to her school because she wanted to give them to all of her friends. Hands down, it’s been seeing my family’s reactions-my parents, my brothers, my husband, and my children have all been my greatest cheerleaders, and all of them in very different ways. Tell us your most rewarding experience since being published. I read it as permission, actually-the freedom to accept that you need time and experience to learn how to spin an idea into a narrative, and how to honor what it wants to say. That always stuck with me-the idea of a story that required maturity to tell. And I remember something Kingsolver says in her foreword: that it had taken her most of her life to find the maturity to write this particular book. And there are passages and descriptions in that novel that have never left my head: a platter painted with forget-me-nots, or the particular delirium of a devilish fever. The characters are so finely drawn, and their voices and perspectives are so precisely distinct. The answer to both of these questions is the same book: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. She still has it on her bookshelf.īeyond your own work (of course), what is your all-time favorite book and why? And what is your favorite book outside of your genre? The very first illustrated “book” I wrote was called The Dragon Who Couldn’t Fly, and my mother put it in an actual binding, and wrote a real “About the Author” blurb, and pasted my school photo at the top. And I was very fortunate to have parents who encouraged those dreams and actively cultivated my interests. I began writing my own stories and illustrating them before I even knew how to spell. When/how did you realize you had a creative dream or calling to fulfill?Īs soon as I learned to read, I wanted to write.
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