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Amy Bronwen Zemser. I was about nine when my fourth-grade teacher put a list of random words on the blackboard and told us to write a one-page story about them. Mine was about a worm that drowned in a puddle. I can still remember the look of horror and fascination on the faces of my classmates and my teacher as I read it aloud.

Even back then, I figured this was a good thing, so I decided to stick with it. The book received rave reviews, even garnering a write-up in the New York Times. I was twenty-eight years old.

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I drafted an entire book about a goldfish who longs to be free, and I wrote another, set in the Middle East, about a friendship between an Israeli-American and a Palestinian-American. I can make a lot of jokes about that period in my life, say that I should have been beaten over the head with a club, or at least medicated heavily, but at the end of the day I know I was just plain afraid.

What am I working on now? Watching the girls grow beyond their trend-bucking mothers is intriguing — and the high jinks are, of course, hilarious.