Kidnapping of Sally Horner

And I just would follow my curiosity to go from, say, book reviewing, to reporting, to learning about the criminal legal system, to doing features, to editing anthologies, and then eventually to publishing books.

So my first book, The Real Lolita, came out in 2018, which built off of a magazine piece that I'd written a few years before about this 11-year-old girl named Sally Horner who had been kidnapped by from Camden, New Jersey in 1948, and taken on this cross-country odyssey, where she was eventually found alive in March of 1950, but then tragically died a couple of years later.

And her story, while it was not the 100% basis for it, it was referenced and did play a So that book kind of looked at not only the kidnapping and who this girl was, but also what role a real life story, a real life case of trauma and pain had to play on a famous work of art.

And so every book asks different questions.