Hi Jamie, thanks for having me on your blog. Today, I’d like to talk about what, in part, inspired my new release This is Not a Love Story. It is an intense (and I’ve been told emotional) love story about two boys struggle to survive on the streets of London. Teen homelessness (and homelessness in general) is a major theme in my story.

A few years ago now, I saw a kid sitting in a dark narrow alley way in the town where I live. There was a dirty sleeping bag tucked around him, and he was cryin...