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Book Nerd Interview Julie Anne Peters is the critically-acclaimed, award winning author of more than a dozen books for young adults and children. Julie loves writing because she gets to be her own boss and doesn't have to work in an office cubicle. It's hard to think outside the box when you work in a cube. She lives in Lakewood, Colorado, with her partner, Sherri, and far too many cats.

The cats are under the impression that they're creative geniuses, since they spend a majority of their day walking back and forth across her computer keyboard. They probably generate more words per day than she does, but who can read cat gibberish?

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Social Media Website What was your first introduction to YA literature, the one that made you choose that genre to write? What I do remember is that at the time I was considering becoming a writer, I was checking out armloads of books from the library every week, of every genre. This was how I taught myself to write—by finding the books that appealed to me and dissecting them; figuring out how the authors created such believable, engaging characters and intriguing plots.

Eventually I gravitated to the young adult section of my library and never left it. There are reluctant readers and then there are recalcitrant readers. All the assigned books in school were deathly boring. So it was back to being a reader hater. When did you write your first book and how old were you? I wrote my first book when I was 38 years old.

Correction: I was a failed teacher. It was terrible.