I remember writing short stories when I was eight or nine, or whatever. I wanted to write from when I was really little. When did you first know that you wanted to be a writer? It makes me feel good to write something each day, and to feel like I've created something new that didn't exist. I know that not everybody is like that, but that's just kind of my thing. I haven't been able to recently with all the sort of publication stuff, but it makes me feel off when I'm not writing or if I haven't written something that day. I think I'm the type of person who has to write everyday.
I try to just focus on what I can focus on, which is the next book. I think I've just had to tell myself the hype exists outside of me, and there's nothing I can do to create it, and there's nothing I can do to end it if I want to. There was also a way in which that becomes stressful because you worry about living up to the expectations, and all that stuff.
You want your book to be on someone's radar, and it's exciting that people were so enthusiastic about the book so early on. I think my book came out among a lot of hype, and I think that's exciting as a debut author because you want people to be paying attention. Do you feel any pressure moving forward? Are you even thinking of the next book? I assume that you want to write more books.
I'm grateful for it, but it's also not something that I really foresaw, or tried to make happen. I think the stars aligned in a way for me that allowed this to happen so young. It feels really good, but I think also I never necessarily wanted to, like, "Oh, I've got to publish a novel by the time I'm 25." I didn't really set out to do that. I'm going to ask you, how does it feel to be a critically-acclaimed author and a best-selling novelist at 26? People ask questions about my work and my age a lot.
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