Want to be a writer when you grow up? You can do that.

This is the desk in my office at home where I write books. For a living.

By the age of ten, I knew I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. I just didn't know how.

I mean, I knew how to write. (Well, kind of. I've gotten a lot better since then.) What I didn't know was how people made a living writing books. Where did writers get their ideas? How did they write books? Who drew the covers? How did their books get to the shelf in my library? How could I do that?

I had all kinds of questions. But I didn't know any writers growing up. Nobody who wrote books for a living. And no writers ever visited my school.

But I really wanted to be a writer. So I figured it out on my own. I'm still figuring it out, but I learned enough to become a full-time book writer. But you, you don't have to figure it all out on your own.

Because you know me. (Online, at least.)

I'm going to tell you where you can find great ideas. I'm going to tell you how to write dialogue, and interesting settings, and all the things to make a great story. I'm going to tell you where covers come from, and how books make it into libraries and bookstores. I'm going to share what I'm reading, what I'm writing, and what I do the rest of the day. In short, I'm going to answer all your questions.

But we'll get to all that. Come back every day, and I'll teach you something new about becoming a writer. In the meantime, believe me when I tell you that if you want to be a writer, if this is what you want to do when you grow up, you can do it. I did, and I'll tell you how to get there.