Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
As a kid, Garret Freymann-Weyr thought writers were universally really weird. Probably because the ones her parents knew, uh, were. (Source.)
When she's depressed, Freymann-Weyr turns to animal crackers. And that's how she met her husband. Aw. (Source.)
The author didn't intend for homosexuality to be a central theme in My Heartbeat, so it surprised her when she discovered that's what her readers were focusing on. (Source.)
Freymann-Weyr got into a bit of deep water when she suggested that YA lit should be a "literature of transition" rather than a destination genre. (Source.)