I had never felt so desperate to find my inspiration until it was time for me to incorporate the character of Leah, back in 2011. I had just launched the first book of a series of two novels. Livro de Joaquim told the male’s point of view of a love story, and now I was preparing to write about Leah and give my readers her side. As I was still working on the first book's promotion, I got stuck with Joaquim's character, trying to find Leah’s voice to no avail. I silently starte

I wrote my first book when I was 8 or 9. I can’t really precise the exact date. It was a time travel middle-grade fiction that my journalist and very patient father typed on his gray Remington. It was called “The Punjabi List”, about a boy who would travel in time after switching groceries lists with an older man, the guardian of a secret. We made copies, stapled them together and I bounded them on the long edge with a cool turquoise blue tape that gave it the aspect of a kid