I think it would be fun to do research and discover stories, like George. He thinks I’m lucky because I get to make things up. Now I live in New York City and Key West, Florida, with my husband, George Cooper, who writes nonfiction. I don’t think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really well. And Fudge-A-Mania grew out of a summer spent in Maine. I also spent two years in Connecticut, where Just as Long as We’re Together and Here’s to You, Rachel Robinson are set.
Then we moved to New Mexico, the setting for Tiger Eyes. I lived there until my kids finished elementary school. Many of my books are set in New Jersey because that’s where I was born and raised. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. So when my own two children started preschool I began to write and I’ve been writing ever since! My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. When I grew up, my need for storytelling didn’t go away. But I never wrote down any of my stories.
I even kept a notebook with the names of my pretend students and how they were doing. And I made them up while I practiced the piano by pretending to give piano lessons. I made up stories playing with paper dolls. I made up stories while I bounced a ball against the side of our house. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.
When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina.
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