I didn’t know the rules and conventions of the genre, but the more I wrote, the more I enjoyed working with the characters. I didn’t know much about the market for young adult fiction, although I’ve been reading a lot in it now…and discovering that there’s amazing stuff out there I’d missed. I wanted to tell a good story, and the best way to tell the story I had in mind was through younger characters. Why did you decide to write for teens specifically? Must have been the right choice, because within a year, I’d sold my first book. Writing was just something I did for fun.īut after talking to those writers, I got so excited about it that it began to take over my life, and finally I decided I had to make a decision about which dream to follow. I wanted to be a classical symphonic musician, not a writer. I was, you understand, a serious musician at the time.

Oh, I wrote in secret, in private, and finally in 1991 a friend of mine sent me to go “talk to some writers” because he couldn’t believe that I wrote so much and didn’t plan to do anything with it. When and why did you first become a writer? Did you fight it or surrender quickly to the muse?įought. But they’ll have Claire’s back when the town’s deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood.” Her new roommates don’t show many signs of life.

When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school’s social scene: somewhere less than zero. From the promotional copy: “Welcome to Morganville, Texas. Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires–Book One)(NAL Jam, 2006/Penguin Group). I have four reptiles living in my house (on purpose). I’ve got a husband who’s a wonderful artist. In the past 15 years, I’ve put out about 20 books, a bunch of short stories, and even some essays on television shows I love. I’ve been writing a long time (more than 15 years professionally) and I delight in challenges, deadlines, balancing day job/writing/family/friends/fun. Seriously, if you take a poll of people who know me, they’ll probably agree with you. Rachel Caine on Rachel Caine: “Rachel Caine is insane.

Glass houses by rachel caine