A huge thank you to Ypulse.com for featuring me on an Author Q & A today! I've been reading their youth media newsletter every single day for the past six years (and even had the good fortune to write for them for a few of those years), and to be featured on their website is such an honor.Ypulse: First off, congratulations on the book! Can you tell us a little about how the idea for a guide to dorm living and decorating came together?
Casey Lewis: Thank you so much! Last spring, I came across a fantastic dorm room in New York Magazine that I just loved, so naturally, I blogged about it. A few weeks later, I was contacted by a book publisher who came across my blog because of this tiny two-sentence post I had written about the dorm. She liked my writing style, and she asked if I would be interested in doing a proposal about having a great lifestyle while living in a dorm room.
I was finishing up final exams and getting ready to move to New York City for a summer internship, but I had a window of three or four days and typed up what I hoped was a book proposal. To my surprise, she loved it and my first week in the city I snagged the book deal. It made for an exhausting summer, interning until six or so and then writing until midnight, but it was an incredible experience.
If you're interested, read the rest here!
