Lisa McMann
Lisa McMann
Lisa McMannis an American author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth27 February 1968
CityHolland, MI
CountryUnited States of America
girl want littles
If you want to touch me, Kendall, touch me. Don't hide behind those little girl slaps.
eye knives want
The thought of being with Shay Wilder makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a butter knife
dream want havens
Whatever I want,' he says. 'Yes.' 'I'm afraid you haven't been privy to that dream yet.
grandfather want moments
Jacián!" She yells again, and then she says something in Spanish. A moment later he comes down the hallway. "I'm going to tell Grandfather you said that," he says. "What do you want?
school sleep want
If you don't want me to see, I guess, don't sleep in the same room as me." He looks at her with a sly smile. "But I'm known for sleeping in school. It's my shtick.
fun attention want
Are you okay?" she whispers, giggling. Me? Oh sure. You might have to carry me out of here, though." What happened?" I created a distraction." I gathered that." Step stool, encyclopedias, floor." I see. Well, I can't thank you enough." Sure you can. Help me flunk enough tests, so I drop out of the 'torian range." Can't you just tell Abernethy that you have a reputation as a dumbshit to keep up, and you don't want the attention?" Flunking is more fun.
Who hasn't had the 'I went to school/work in my underwear' dream?
cool dreamed dreaming middle morning watching weird wrote
Seriously, I dreamed that I was in my husband'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.
characters dreams favorite normal sucked ways
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's dreams.
fiction found itself lends
I've always found teenagers really interesting. I think they've got so much going on in their lives, so that lends itself really well to fiction because there's so much drama, so much activity, so much growth.
burn cry definitely force hot kids longer okay remember sixth tears throats turn year
I vividly remember sixth grade. It's the year when kids turn mean, and it's definitely no longer okay to cry in public. So we force our hot tears back, and they burn our throats all the way down.
date nearly time
Nearly every notable event in 'Wake' has a date or a time stamp.
I would like to be able to disappear whenever I do something dorky.
grand high holland school
I went to Holland Christian High School in Holland, Michigan, and to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.