You are 27. How did your family respond to you being a published author? I don't think they understood, you know, i think that if they my my mam and my grandma, i think their biggest concern was, am i going to be able to pay my rent?" You enrolled in bunny gable's children's book writing class at the new school where bby willoughby, an editor at delacourt, heard you reading from what would become your first book.