Guest author Alex Beecroft

I've known Alex since Noah was a boy. She's been a sounding board, a shoulder to lean on, and a source of both much merriment and some great bedtime reads. Oh, and she's been kind enough to let me borrow one of her characters from Under the Hill for nefarious purposes. (But that's for another day.)

What inspired you to start writing?

It happened when I was about 11. I think it may have been because my friends stopped wanting to play 'lets pretend' with me. I don't know what they did instead, but I went away and started writing down the things I was pretending instead of acting them out. It didn't feel like a creative process I was encountering for the first time rather than something I'd always done. It still feels like something I've always done and couldn't be me without. ( Read more... )

And here's the girl herself reading a bit of the story!