K. L. Going lives
in Glen Spey, NY. Since graduating college she has worked
as an adult literacy tutor, a ticket agent for an airline,
a front desk clerk at a resort hotel, as an assistant to
two agents at a Manhattan Literary agency, and a manager
of an independent bookstore. (Merritt
Books)
Currently, she is
writing full time.
She has lived in Maine, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Louisiana and New York City.
She also has a very unsettling
obsession with Ketchup.
You can e-mail
her at kl@klgoing.com
Frequently
Asked Questions
Q:
Where and when were you born?
A:
Rhinebeck, NY on August 21, 1973 |
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Q:
What are your parent's names?
A: William and Linda. (My dad's
nickname is Bud after his father.)
Q:
Do you have any brothers or sisters?
A: I have one sister, April, who
is three years older than me. She has a son
named Ben.
Q:
Where did you go to school?
A: I went to Wallkill High School
in NY, and Eastern College in PA. I was a sociology major
and a Biblical studies minor.
Q: What childhood experiences/memories have been the subjects
of your writing?
A: Mostly I write about feelings.
I draw extensively on how I remember feeling throughout
school. I've always been small and thin, (4'11 and 3/4"
!) but I've spent a vast amount of my life feeling like
the "fat kid" - namely, self-conscious. I try to tap into
the extreme ends of the emotional spectrum. I'm not as
interested in the stable feelings in the middle. I take
the best and worst feelings and try to make those emotions
come alive through my characters.
Q: Where
do you write?
A: At home, in the spare bedroom
because it is quiet and warm.
Q: Do you own any
pets? If so, what types? Their names?
A: I have two cats - Merry and Pippin.
They are adorable little troublemakers. :-}
Q: What are
your favorite pastimes/activities when you are not writing?
A: What? You mean there are activities
aside from writing?? Ok* let's think. Listening to music.
Reading. Traveling. I'm employed part time at a local gym and enjoy working out. In the summer I watch both the Mets and Yankees and in the winter I watch as many Indianapolis Colts games as I can.
I also enjoy playing X-Box with my husband and we play WoW in the winter. I know, I know. I'm a big geek. I am a HUGE fan of independent films, whether it's watching them, checking out the stuff my husband creates (www.norabelfilms.com) or trying to get Fat Kid Rules the World made into a movie!
Q: What's
your favorite color?
A:
Red.
Q: What kind
of music do you listen to?
A: My musical preferences are strongly
influenced by my mood, so I like a lot of different things.
Favorite band is Nirvana (ok, how hard was that to figure
out?). I love Iggy Pop, Oasis, a Northampton group called
the Nields, Alanis Morisette...
Q: How did you
start writing? Did you always want to be an author?
A: As a kid, I was always writing
stories for fun, but I didn't plan on being an author.
I was planning on joining the Peace Corps. Writing was
something I did for pleasure. I wrote my first complete
book in high school. It was a fantasy novel. After that,
I was always working on something. It wasn't until much
later when I got a job in publishing that I first considered
submitting my work for publication.
Q: Are you
working on anything new?
A: Yes! Quite a bit, actually. My editor and I are working on my next teen novel, tentatively titled King of the Screw Ups. I'm also working on a short story for Harper Teen, and I have a how-to book from Writer's Digest Books called Writing and Selling the YA Novel. Plus, believe
it or not, I've just sold my first picture book!
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