Brittany asked Heather Demetrios:

Hi! I read "I'll Meet You There" a while back and I absolutely loved it. I don't know if this has already been asked, but what compelled you to write about Skylar and Josh? Both of these characters were conveyed in a very realistic way and there problems as well. You managed to make this novel feel real and I couldn't put it down.

Heather Demetrios Thank you so much for reading! It's a weird mix of stuff that got me writing about them. I first thought of the Paradise motel and Creek View. I knew I had to write a book set in this place (sometimes, setting is a major story-starter for me). The first scene I wrote was Sky behind the counter at the Paradise, bored and dying of heat. Then I wrote the party scene. Josh was in it, but just a small character. With the help of my early readers, I began to see that the story was about Sky and Josh, not just Sky. And I fell in love with them and just wouldn't give up on the book, even though it was SO HARD to get it right. I think the key was that they had to be real - totally flesh and blood - for me. I collaged to understand Sky more, I watched all the military movies Josh did, while drinking beer, and had my dad teach me the cadences he learned in boot camp. And there you have it!

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