Alona Bagley asked Brendan Halpin:

My favorite is Donorboy because of how simple it is, told entirely in transcripts, journal entries, messages, emails; all sorts of points of views, but never really any point of view at all. Just what the people in the story thought was important enough to write down, to save, to remember. Many things are only shown by the beginning and the end. I love it. But I was wondering, was it ever hard to write like that?

Brendan Halpin Thanks so much for your question and for your kind words! I really appreciate it!

I didn't find it that hard to move from one character's voice to another, but I did sometimes find it hard to figure out how to tell part of the story through an email or text or whatever. That's why I used the transcripts of the meetings at school. I was very worried when I wrote it that people would think using those was "cheating," but nobody's ever complained!

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