The Nature of Jade’ is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through her involvement with them, becomes involved with a boy and his baby. Deb Caletti Read Quote
I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for. Deb Caletti Read Quote
My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California. Deb Caletti Read Quote
Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the ‘Queen of Everything,’ I thought it was a book for adults. Deb Caletti Read Quote
When your arms are out wide, you’ll capture love and joy and golden moments but other things, too. Mistrust will sneak in on a wave of that joy, and complications will ride the backs of the golden moments, and there will be both love and the risks of love. That’s the way it is. That’s the design. Deb Caletti Read Quote
If you think about becoming a writer, that’s just really one of the big dreams I had. It’s really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions. Deb Caletti Read Quote
I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods. Deb Caletti Read Quote
All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It’s kind of self-therapy. Deb Caletti Read Quote