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What books are on your summer reading list this year?

Leslea Wahl I'm hoping to catch up a few more Catholic YA books. I Am Margaret by Corinna Turner and McCracken and the Lost Island by Mark Adderley are on the top of my list.

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Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Leslea Wahl I've always loved Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, I thoroughly enjoy their interactions.

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It sounds so exciting to be an author and I've thought many times I should. Reading your comment below that characters and scenes kept popping into your mind and you finally had to write them down. I haven't written them and started a couple times and those thoughts were gone. So I think whether it's random thoughts PUT IT ON A PAGE?!!! Thanks for your thoughts.

Leslea Wahl Thanks for the question. I always love hearing from new friends. This story - The Perfect Blindside - was kind of unique because the story just kept coming to me and I didn't really have to think about it very much. Since then I have written a few more stories (one of which is coming out in October) and the process has been a little different for those books. In those I did have ideas that popped into my head but they were more random. I did write them down and eventually other ideas grew from them or I realized some of the ideas that seemed completely unrelated could work together in a story. So my advice would be to jot down the ideas in a notebook and every so often look back through the notes. The mind is an amazing and creative tool and sometimes a new creative thought will be sparked by an old idea. (Of course there are always those stray ones that never really work anywhere but even they can get your mind thinking in other ways.) Hope this helps! Keep writing and creating!

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Are one of your new young adult books a sequel to The Perfect Blindside, or is it a stand-alone book? (I think the title is really clever, by the way!)

Leslea Wahl Thanks! I'm glad you like the title. The other books I have been working on are not related to The Perfect Blindside. However, I have been brainstorming ideas for a sequel and hope to start writing it this spring.

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Leslea Wahl The story of The Perfect Blindside quite literally popped into my head. My book club was reading a Young Adult novel and I became interested in the idea of a story seen from two different points of view. Characters and scenes just started coming to me until I finally had to start writing them down. Even though the initial idea came quickly, it took years of rewriting, editing and opening rejection letters before it was published.

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