Leslie Manning asked Leslie Tall Manning:

When did you know you wanted to be an author?

Leslie Tall Manning I am a late bloomer! Went to college in my late twenties, married at 35... so it would only be fitting that becoming an author would take some time. As a college theatre major with plans to open a not-for-profit theatre in Los Angeles, I took a playwriting class my junior year and absolutely fell in love with the process. I then took a novel writing class my senior year, and that was the clincher. To date, I have written sixteen novels (six are published), a few short stories, three plays, and one musical adaptation. In 2022 I plan to work on a new musical adaptation of one of my YAs. So even though I didn't start on my writer's journey as early as some, it's better late than never, as the wise folks say!

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