1–What is the title of your latest release? HAMPTON HEIGHTS 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? It’s right there in the subtitle: “One Harrowing Night in the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.” Six paperboys and their stupid manager Kevin set out to sell subscriptions on a cold winter’s night in 1987. Wild adventures ensue. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I grew up in Milwaukee in the 1980s and wanted to capture that very particular time and place. And Hampton Heights is a real neighborhood—one that in the ‘80s was shifting from working-class white to working-class Black and facing the manufacturing shutdown that hit most Midwestern cities in that era. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonists in real life? The six boys at the center of the story would (wisely) scorn me now, but back when I was a teen, a few of them might have thought I was OK. I would not hang out with their stupid manager Kevin. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonists? Ambitious, anxious, and brave. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? That it is really fun to take the familiar creatures…

