Jean Tanael asked Leah Scheier:

Hi Ms. Leah. I just finished your book All I hear is your Voice and it was fantastic and amazing. I hope that there's POV of Jonah so that we can see what's happening in his mind or what he's thinking for April. I like the ending though its not happy ending like the other YA novel I read. Is there hope that will be a sequel for this book? :)

Leah Scheier Hi Jean, Thanks so much for writing to me! I'm so glad you enjoyed my novel. I have had a couple of readers say that they would have loved to hear Jonah's POV as well as April's. While that is a fascinating idea, I don't have plans to write that viewpoint at this time. There are several wonderful novels told from the POV of a person with schizophrenia (CHALLENGER DEEP by Neal Shusterman just won the National Book Award) and I'm not sure an additional POV would add much to this story. Also I'm concerned it would feel a tad repetitive. As for a sequel, I wanted to leave the novel hopeful and open-ended. If you see April and Jonah finding each other again, there is certainly room for that! And if you see them going their separate ways, that's fine too. I tend to the happier epilogue in my imagination, but I can see both endings. Thanks again for writing to me!

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