10 (Hopefully) Interesting Things About Me
1. I’ve been obsessed with creating things since before I could talk.
2. I started writing my novel when I was nine years old and finished it a few months after I turned 10. It took me about six months to write it (in pandemic-time, which is probably a whole year normal time!). I published it a few months after I turned 11.
3. I live in Vancouver, Canada with my mom, dad and my sweet little sister.
4. My parents are both writers so I actually didn’t let them read my novel because I figured no one would believe I wrote it myself if they found out my parents are successful writers! (Like, if J. K. Rowling’s kid wrote a best-selling novel about magic, people would be suspicious, right?).
5. I’ve been vegetarian my whole life. My dragon characters are not. At all.
6. I love musical theatre so when I’m not writing, I’m either dancing, singing or acting out gruesome death scenes. I also love making absurd comics and action-packed short films.
7. I love dragons for SO many reasons but mainly because they are AWESOME. True fact: I proudly won a dragons vs unicorns debate in grade four. I mean, what’s not to love about dragons? They can fly, they can breathe fire and they can melt the faces of your mortal enemies.
8. I have weirdly flexible and double-jointed fingers. I think this makes me type faster due to the comments I keep getting about my supposedly “supernaturally fast” typing. Randomly helpful physical trait for a novelist.
9. I wrote another shorter novel before A Dragon's Tale: Plight of the Hybrids, but it was really bad. I think of it as my “practice novel.” Actually, that’s what my mom calls it. I call it my “crap novel.”
10. I got the idea for this novel after my mom and I went to the Black Lives Matter protest in Vancouver, and I started to learn more about how black people have been so discriminated against for so long. At the same time, I was learning about the holocaust at school and in books I was reading. I put all my sadness and anger about it into my novel.