KB: Describe the process of getting your agent and publishing your book. I’ve yet to develop a deep answer for “why I write.” I think it’s because I’m a masochist fast typist with too much time on my hands…but that’s not usually what people want to hear. This was just the one that got picked up. I’ve queried all but one of those nine novels I mentioned-some more extensively than others. HM: I think I sort of figured it was the natural consequence of writing so many novels. KB: What made you decide to write a novel and try to get it published? HM: BREAK: A boy is on a mission to break all his bones. KB: Describe your upcoming book in 20 words or less. I wrote my first legitimate (though awful) novel when I was fourteen, and since then I’ve written nine total. The first long manuscript I finished was when I was eleven it was a hundred pages or so.

I think that was the first time I ever wrote something with the idea that it would someday be a real book. So my best friend and I, of course, decided that we needed to do this, and she would be my agent. Around that time, my fifth grade teacher read us that (fantastic) Andrew Clements book, The School Story, which is all about how this middle schooler writes a book and her friend pretends to be an agent and gets her published. HM: I started working on my first long manuscript when I was ten. KB: When did you start writing? (You know, like books, not the alphabet.) Which means she is here to offer encouragement and inspiration to all of us under-20 writers, praying we can make it. ‘Cause not only is she an author with a really cool, creepy-sounding book coming out in August, she’s also a teenage author. I’m spastically excited to post my interview with Hannah. I pick my head up and shake my neck, just to be sure I can. “Yeah, I thought so.” Blood’s the unfortunate side effect of a hardcore fall. I choke out a sweaty, clogged piece of laughter. Naomi’s beside me, and her tiny hand is an ice cube on my smoldering back. “You fell like a bag of mashed potatoes.” Her sneakers make bubble gum smacks against the pavement on her way to me. I hold my breath for a moment until I can say, “We got it.” “You totally got it that time,” she says. Naomi’s camera beeps and she makes a triumphant noise in her throat.

The sound is like a mallet against a crab.īeside me, my skateboard is a stranded turtle on its back. Tags: author, book, BREAK, Hannah Moskowitz, interview, novel, published author, Simon Pulse, teen, teenage writer, teenager, writer, Writing Interview with author Hannah Moskowitz Maat 12:14 PM | Posted in Authors, Interviews | 1 Comment

Break by Hannah Moskowitz