How and when did you decide to become a writer? When I was a kid, I read This Can’t be Happening at MacDonald Hall and found out Gordon Korman had written the book when he was thirteen. Excited that kids could be writers, I wondered what the steps were to do this phenomenal thing. I asked it of my teachers, school librarians, public librarians, parents, but no one had an answer. I came to the conclusion that being an author was a bit like winning the lottery, a happy occurrence of chance and luck. I stopped dreaming of being a writer. Fast forward to finishing university, reading a horrible book, and having the question resurface, “What does it take to be a professional writer?”
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH BESTSELLING YOUNG ADULT AUTHOR, NATASHA DEEN
