1–What is the title of your latest release? COME OUT, COME OUT 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? It’s the story of three young queer kids who find solace in each other when they’re young, but when they encounter something terrifying and sinister in the woods, only two of them make it out alive… alive, but not entirely themselves. Five years later, Fern and Jaq are unknowingly trapped in straight lives with only the most distant sense of the things they’ve lost. Until they end up inside the woods once more and everything changes. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I have always loved the Pacific Northwest and lived on the Olympic Peninsula for a time when I was in high school. I’m not sure I’ve ever loved the woods the way I did when I lived there—they are wild and beautiful and terrifying all at once. They reached up to the edge of my backyard, lined the narrow mountain roads I took to school, and spilled away in the foothills at the edge of town. They were promise and possibility, haunting and lovely, and the very natural setting for a story…

