‘Listen to yourself more than you listen to other people’ Advice to her 15-year-old self from Author Peg Cheng
February 10, 2017
I met Peg Cheng via email through a mutual writer friend, Tamiko Nimura. Right after, I purchased her middle grade novel, The Contenders, on amazon. I was hooked from page 11 by the clean writing and sweet father-daughter relationship. A few weeks later, over coffee at Corina’s Bakery, I had the feeling I had known Peg forever. Our conversation ran everywhere. Our stories towards our lives as writers merged in many places. I thought later how interesting and useful it would be to share with younger writers the twisted and uphill routes we take and make as we move forward in life. So when I came up with an Author Q&A, When I was 15,...
