KSAT 12 Reports on the Inspiration Behind The Purgatorium Series

Myra Arthur of KSAT 12 News interviewed me today about the inspiration behind my newest young adult series. The Purgatorium portrays an island off the coast of California, where people go wanting to die and leave fighting to live. It was inspired by a tragedy in my neighborhood three years ago.

Fourteen-year-old Mason McCoy took his life over an inappropriate text. This story, told to me by a mutual friend of mine and the mother, Dawn McCoy, inspired me to revisit a manuscript which I had already started and which, because of this tragedy, begged to be finished.

To see the television coverage and to read the complete interview, please visit the KSAT 12 Website here.