Hi! You are my favorite author, I've read all of your contemporaries! One of my favorite things about your books is your mental health inclusion (as someone who is fighting the battle with mental illness). I was just wondering why writing different mental illnesses into your books became important to you and how you research said illnesses? Have a blessed day and keep up the amazing work!

Kasie West Thank you! I'm so happy you enjoy my books. My inclusion of mental illness in my books is very important to me and comes from living with someone who deals with anxiety every day. My daughter. It was important for me to illustrate it as just one part of who someone is. So that was my main resource for anxiety--being in the thick of it. As for others I've chosen to portray, they all stem from someone close to me who has experienced them first hand and I have gone to for advice when writing about them.

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