I wrote my first book because I couldn't find anything I ...

I wrote my first book because I couldn't find anything I wanted to read.

Really, it's as simple as that.  And as complex as that, too.  I had just graduated from college. I was somewhere I didn't want to be, sharing a one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles with my mother. It was a trying time all around, and writing became my refuge–if I was writing I didn't get into spats with my Mom; if I was writing I didn't have to think too much about what I was going to do when I left LA and started out...