Devon asked April Henry:

Do you want each book to stand on its own, or do you want connections between each book? Also, if you could tell your younger writing self anything, what would it be?

April Henry It's a mix. The Body in the Woods and Blood Will Tell share the same characters. Count All Her Bones is a sequel to Girl, Stolen. Everything else stands on its own, although they are all set in Oregon.

I would tell my younger self not to give up, to keep writing and working on getting better and reading a lot. I stopped writing for years because I thought there was no way a kid who grew up poor in a logging town could be a writer. I wish I had those years back!

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