Ask the Author: Kate Axelrod
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Kate Axelrod
Write whenever you can, as much as you can! But don’t put so much pressure on yourself. I have a friend who is working on her thesis for a PhD program, and she gave me good advice, which was to just write everyday, no matter how long or how good it is, but just get something out. I picked 200 words. That’s not very much, but I did it. And eventually my brain just sort of caught on after a while, and it became a very natural process.
Kate Axelrod
I came up with the idea for this book when I was doing homeless outreach work. There was an older woman who I met, she was very kind and quiet, probably in her late sixties. I met so many homeless women and men during that time, and I started thinking about the fact that everyone who is homeless started out having such a different life. They all had their own unique histories. And I kept thinking about this older woman (who had schizophrenia) she could've been my mother or my grandmother. And I started thinking: what if my mother had schizophrenia? And the germ of the novel started from there.
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