Four years ago, I began to write a YA that I intended to be something like Griffin & Sabine. In other words, tangible, colorful, unique, with letters you could physically remove from envelopes. I had an idea of putting together a scrapbook of a girl’s senior year of high school that would tell her story. When I was done with the writing of it, both my husband and I agreed that it was basically an outline for a cool book.

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