The Squad: Killer Spirit

I’ve wanted to be a writer for pretty much as long as I can remember. In fact, aside from a brief flirtation with the idea of being a veterinarian when I was four, being a professional writer has been my ultimate dream job (and, for that matter, my ultimate dream) for more or less my entire life. Along with my dislike of chocolate (I know, I’m a freak) and my love of all things sparkly, my passion for fiction–books, television, movies, and more–has probably been one of my most enduring character traits, and one of the ones that has most defined me as a person.

The summer I was 19, I wrote Golden, the story of a girl named Lissy who…