Emilee
Emilee asked Jeff Zentner:

I had read goodbye days before the Serpent king(I didn't even realized Dill was Dearly in good bye days until afterwords) So what I wanted to ask is something that Maggie Stiefvater had told the kids at my library about her "first thought" the first thing she had thought of before she even came up with her Shiver series was "to make people sad" what was your first thought before you had started to write your books?

Jeff Zentner Thanks for your question! My first thought is always “what is the story that won’t leave me alone?” What is the story I NEED to tell? What is the story that’s been gnawing at me for some time? Often, as in GOODBYE DAYS, the story I need to tell involves confronting some deep fear.

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