I've been writing stories pretty much my whole life. As a child, I wrote them entirely in my head, as I wandered around the house acting them out with my stuffed animals. In my early teenage years, hours of my summer vacation were devoted to handwriting stories in notebooks that prominently featured the gentlemen from New Kids on the Block and my friends. Towards the end of high school and into early college I wrote poetry full of more pathos than actually existed in my life. Then for a number of years all I wrote were research papers. I didn't find fiction again until I was nearly 30 and I sat down to chronicle Kate's journey in my first novel, Neverending Beginnings. It includes far less boy bands (by which I mean none).