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"Hey, CGs! If you&amp;#039;re looking for some awesome new books to add to your summer reading list \u2014 check out Gone by Lisa McMann. It&amp;#039;s the third in the Wake trilogy (the first two books are called Wake and Fade) about a girl named Janie that has the mysterious ability to enter other people&amp;#039;s dreams \u2014 including her boyfriend&amp;#039;s! So, get to know Lisa McMann with our exclusive chat right now! CosmoGirl: When did you know that you wanted to be a writer? Lisa McMann: I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I&amp;#039;d get to hang out with authors all day. I remember the moment he told me, and I remember thinking &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m going to be a writer!&amp;quot; CG: Why did you start writing paranormal romance? LM: Writing paranormal was a total accident. I wrote Wake and when I showed it to my husband, I was like, &amp;quot;So, what is this? Sci-Fi?&amp;quot; And he was all, &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s paranormal. Like the X-Files.&amp;quot; And I was like, &amp;quot;Ahhhh, yes, yes, it is.&amp;quot; I really didn&amp;#039;t have a lot of experience writing paranormal before that. These books just came out that way. And I sort of fell in love with the genre, not to mention putting a love story together with it. There&amp;#039;s nothing like a geeky-hot, mysterious guy, right? One of my favorite ways to write paranormal, as in the Wake trilogy, is to write very normal characters with just a hint of something other-worldly. Like somewhere, maybe, someone really can get sucked into other people&amp;#039;s dreams. CG: How did you come up with the idea for the  Wake trilogy?  LM: I had a dream about it! Funny, right? Seriously, I dreamed that I was in my husband&amp;#039;s dream, watching what he was dreaming about. Like I was in his dream as an onlooker. It was so weird that I immediately wrote it down in the middle of the night. In the morning, it still sounded cool. And I couldn&amp;#039;t stop thinking about it. CG: What do you want readers to take away from the main character Janie? LM: Well, Janie has a lot of problems. Not only does she have this dream-catching ability that feels like a curse to her, but she also lives on welfare with her alcoholic mother. So Janie basically could just give up \u2014 if I were in her shoes, I just might. But Janie&amp;#039;s a very strong young woman. And she&amp;#039;s determined to change her life. I admire her so much and I hope my readers do too. CG: What paranormal power do you most want? LM: I would like to be able to disappear whenever I do something dorky. Have you read any books on the Wake series? What other paranormal books have you read?  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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