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Hi, Jade.

Your questions: My favorite perspective is first person because you can get detailed descriptions of the characters’ innermost thoughts. It also works when I write from different perspectives, because all the characters are writing in the first person. As for tense, I prefer present. It’s just a thing I have, and it’s hard to explain. It sounds a little more down-to-earth, a little more young and human to me. Visualizing my characters and settings just come to me. It’s part of doing enough planning to know the people and where they are and how they interact with one another. I repeat: planning is everything. 

I knew I wanted to continue writing because my first book was an enormous success, a bestseller! Never argue with success. And basically, I wanted to see if I could do it again.

No idea why the thing asks for your email. It never comes through to me. So anyone who expects a reply by email is doomed to disappointment!

Hope that’s everything. Happy summer.                                                —–GK—–