Your questions are starting to come in, and I decided to kick this new feature off by choosing a question about why I do what I do!

Lexie F. asked, “What made you want to become an author?”

Reading was probably the single most significant part of my childhood and teenage years. Books were my best friends and my greatest love, and I never went anywhere without them. I could never get enough words and stories and characters. Being completely and utterly absorbed by a book remains one of the most...