![]() One of the books that I read when I was going through cancer was Lance Armstrong’s It’s Not About the Bike. Why was it important to you that you depict Ross’s frustration and resentment? This story is about kindness, but it’s also about anger. I had just finished writing another middle grade novel, so it all kind of clicked. I thought about how awkward that would be for a kid. In Wink, Ross has to wear a hat everywhere, which I had to do, too, but as a 35 year old it wasn’t that weird. She had some friends fall away, and it was pretty clear to me that it was because they didn’t know how to handle. I saw how much she went through that I didn’t, especially in a social respect. ![]() ![]() I was able to talk to her about it it’s like we were both in this weird club. She was a soccer player and it took her out from that. Then my best friend’s daughter, who was a freshman in high school, found out she had cancer in her leg. At one time, I considered doing a graphic novel or even having my characters from the strip go through it, but I never found the right tone or was happy with it. I kicked around the idea of writing a memoir or an adult novel. I continued to do the strip all through the treatments, and I always thought there was something there about humor and being forced to be funny every day. ![]() When I went through my cancer experience, 14 years ago now, I was doing my comic strip Big Top. ![]() Why did you decide to write this story, a fictional account of something you experienced in real life as an adult, from the perspective of a seventh grader? ![]()
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