Yeah

...

I, I, I was amazed by that.

And since then, um, my second book was Amal Unbound, and that's a middle grade book, so it's for younger kids, uh, middle school.

And again, I thought, "Oh, well, I've published one book that's young adult, so my next one must be young adult." And so I wrote that expecting her to be a teenager, expecting, you know, her to be about 16, and then I sent it to my editor, and she said, "But you've written a much younger girl.

[laughs] The voice is young." And, and so then, you know, so then I learned, like, okay, I can't...

I actually am not in control [laughs] of my characters.

Mm-hmm.