Adam Silvera

There will be opportunities for hope and happiness, and happiness will return to your life, but you will always feel that loss if that person really meant that great a deal to you.

I had definitely missed the literary development game with Paper Lantern Lit, and writing exclusively wasn't giving me complete fulfillment.

My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters come from single households. That was something that, when I lived in South Bronx, that's what it was like.

The book industry is all about community, and it never really feels like anyone is competing against anyone, thankfully.

Whereas Books of Wonder excels with children's literature, McNally Jackson is where I go for my adult new releases, and no, it has nothing to do with the fact that Taylor Swift shops there, too.

I'm definitely of the 'Harry Potter'-transfigured-me-into-a-reader-and-writer generation. And that's really all I read throughout my teen years, because I really devoted all my time to writing and reading friends' fan-fiction.

My favorite uncle died when I was eleven, and that was two months after 9/11, so that was a particularly difficult time with my family.

Especially with grief and heartbreak, you can go through these things and think, 'I will never be whole again.'

I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.

Death is the one - the one thing we don't have many answers for. We understand how people die, but we don't know what comes next, and that's something that's always fascinated and disturbed me and frustrated me.

They Both Die At The End' is about coming face to face with your own mortality.

All my books center around death in some way.