The Importance of Making Art From Your Life

So freckled is actually my best-selling book out of 40 plus titles. It's sold close to 75,000 copies in full price at almost $9 a piece. I age up the writing and it's in first-person, present tense. And you're just in Hawaii having all these experiences with me until it ends when I'm 18. So it's a very unusual memoir. But what keeps me going is this calling that I felt in my heart to make art from life.