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Janet Tashjian is the author of several novels, including Fault Line and The Gospel According to Larry, which was named a Best Book for Young Adults, a Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, a New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age, and a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book.
Tashjian lives in Los Angeles with her family.
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Are you like any of the characters in your books?
While I'm working on a book, I never think the characters have anything
to do with me. Then when I finish and read the manuscript over, I discover
they do. Trudy's ambition and runaway ideas are familiar qualities; Monica's
hyper-analyzing stems from me too. (I also freeze snowballs in the winter to
use in July the way her neighbor Darcy does.) Larry and I believe that
ordinary people can change the world - in fact it's the main reason why
we're here. (We both do yoga too. I do a better full lotus, but his tree
pose blows me away.) There's usually a little piece of me in every character
I write.
How long does it take you to write a book? How do you write them?
It usually takes me 3-5 months to write a novel, another month to rewrite
it. I write both on the computer and in longhand. I like the freedom of
writing in a notebook; you can do it anywhere. I edit and revise on the hard
copy itself.
(A leftover habit from being a Journalism major.)
Nonfiction when I'm working on a novel. For me, it's difficult to be
inside two fictional worlds at the same time. But I ...
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