“I read 'Pushing the Limit' and 'Dare You To' by Katie McGarry. Fantast...” — Lori Foster Quote

I read 'Pushing the Limit' and 'Dare You To' by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I had never read young adult before, but now I'm a believer.

We tend to think of human trafficking as a foreign issue, not something that could happen here in our own back yards. But it's a fast-growing problem in the United States, in every area, with no real defined demographic.

How it works for me is that a scene comes to mind, usually a scene between the hero and heroine, that depicts the emotional conflict. From that scene, the characters come alive for me. I don't do a lot of preplanning in any way when I write.

There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen. The way contracts work, if you leave one publishing house for another, the characters tend to stay with the previous publishing house.

As a child who loved to read, I had trouble finding honest stories. I felt that adults were always keeping secrets from me, even in the books I was reading.

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'

I feel like with Tecia, I'm on the kimura and I'm doing it, I feel like 98 percent of the people would tap. You have to be a little bit mean like just rip it. Maybe they'll tear their shoulder and have to have surgery or something like that. Of course, that's not my goal but we're all adults here. They're going to try to hurt me.