Goodreads asked Merryl Hammond:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Merryl Hammond I would travel to the fictional world I'm writing about in my first YA novel, and would sit down and talk with each character about how they're thinking and feeling about the chaotic events that have engulfed them. (The teen protagonist's mother gets diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and the whole family gets so severely disrupted it almost cracks apart.) I have personally lived through some of this drama, but I was the mother. It's both fascinating and challenging for me to write from the teen daughter's perspective in this novel.

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