Lois Metzger
I've written five YA novels and this is the only one based on a dream. In the dream, I'm standing in front of my bedroom window, looking out at a building across the way. That building is on fire. Inside is a girl standing there, looking at me. I can't understand why she's not running away from that burning building. Then I realize--I'm seeing a reflection. I'm the one in the burning building, and the flames are behind me and getting closer. The girl in "Change Places with Me" has this same dream and it scares her as much as it scared me.
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Grace Galinski
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Lois Metzger:
I just finished reading A Trick of the Light. It was amazing and truly touching. You don't really hear much about boys/men being anorexic, but your book really showed that it can happen to anyone. It felt extremely real once I figured out who/what was telling the story, and I have a question. Why did you write it so that it was his anorexia telling the story? What made you think of doing that?
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