![]() ![]() "Digress," and then I made my teenage character apologize for using it.Ĥ. Jonathan Auxier asks, "What's the strangest or most obscure word you've ever worked into a book?" Linda Spalding asks, "Did you feel loved and protected as a child?"ģ. Still, none of it lasted more than a few days or hours before I'd be lured back to the page.Ģ. I'm a drama queen at the best of times so there was a fair bit of foot stomping, whining and "leaving" in a huff. ![]() Kelley Armstrong asks, "Which has been harder for you: becoming an author or staying one?"īecoming an author was shockingly easy - the intervening 20 years was the real test. In her amped-up psychological thriller Beware That Girl, two girls at a prestigious private high school discover the truth about a predatory faculty member as they try to hide their own dark pasts.īelow, Teresa Toten answers eight questions submitted by eight of her fellow writers in the CBC Books Magic 8 Q&A.ġ. ![]() The Governor General's Literary Award winner for The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B has given her young adult characters their fair share of challenges, from alcoholic parents to OCD and mysterious burn scars. Teresa Toten's not one to shy away from the darker side of life - in her fiction, at least. ![]()
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