It was that love of being part of a writing community that led me to the University of Texas at Austin, where I immediately joined the staff of The Daily Texan (and eventually graduated with a degree in history).Ī few years later, I stumbled into another group of Austin writers - children’s writers. When I was a teenager, I loved writing with my friends, whether it was making up parodies of superheroes and soap operas or putting out an award-winning student newspaper. Our mom taught high school French and Spanish, and our dad was an optometrist who died when I was eight. It was inspired in equal parts by Star Wars (recurring dialogue: “Let’s get out of here!”), the Muppets, Abbott & Costello, and the movie-monster books I loved to check out from the school library. Meet The Monsters ( you can see and read the whole thing!). And it was there, at Lamar Elementary, that I wrote the first story that I remember sharing with the public: The Ozzie Bros. I grew up about 80 miles east of Dallas, in the small town of Sulphur Springs, Texas.
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