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I was a voracious reader when I was a kid,
utterly voracious,
and I *** ran out of my own books. So my favorite
memories are in my school library,
I would "not skip school and class"
and go and hang out in my library
and just devour the shelves until the librarian realized that I was there and
kicked me back to school. So I just I love them. I spent so many wonderful hours there.
Yes, libraries didn't just foster, they encouraged s
and they kind of force fed books.
When I went, "I don't know about this," and I would have librarians say, "No, you need to read this."
And I loved them.
I just wanted more and more. Well, at the risk of getting too political,
I will say that anything that goes to
defund our libraries is really going to defund our children.
We need these libraries. We need kids who,
kids are not made of money. I certainly wasn't. I needed someplace to go
where I could read more and more books,
and that's the place to do it.
[On censorship] Please. Banning books solves nothing.
I was reading romance when I was 11 years old and I mean
full adult romance. And, you know, my mom tried to keep them from me, because
you know, eleven and
I found a way around it. So, banning a book is not going to do anything except
cause your kid to sneak around reading books that you're not aware of.
[I remember those days.
So, tell me, what is your current project.] My current project is,
actually in this series, right here. This is my
Steampunk, historical urban fantasy. And I'm writing a novella
where fifty percent of the proceeds I make will be going to make the
Make a Wish Foundation. And it is a Steampunk novella.