So, why don't you pick a piece while you tell me what the inspiration was behind this book.

Yes.

I had always wanted to write a crime novel because I loved reading crime from when I was a kid.

But I...

I did it.

First block out.

I had always been a bit scared of writing crime because of the forensics and what's involved.

Yeah, can you talk a little bit about that as well? Okay,

Mm-hmm.

There's a catch though: Judy has to write her unknown patron regularly about school activities, and it has to be one-sided correspondence because she is to expect no reply.

Judy faithfully addresses her letters to Daddy Long Legs, a name she decided to use after having glimpsed the back of her tall, mysterious friend.

At school, she hides her impoverished past from her arrogant classmate Julia, whose young, handsome, and rich uncle becomes a figure who sets Judy and readers alike wondering about the identity of her secret and immensely generous sponsor.

is there a genre or a couple of genres that attract you more than others? Are you kind of a crime-y person, or are you a relationships person, or slow novels?

Um, hmm, I don't have time to read all the novels I want.

I would love to read across genres all of the time, but I have to read in the genre that I'm writing in.

Um, so I read a lot of crime, I read a lot of young adult, I read a lot of middle grade.