I love going to the movies. Like… love love. When I was a kid we were dirt poor, so going to the theater felt like going on vacation. For a couple hours you weren’t broke, you weren’t worried you were in another world. That magic never left me. That love of movies is actually what got me into working at a local theater as a teenager, I started out building sets with my Aunt Melaney Mel's Art n Stuff (who now illustrates my books) , then somehow ended up acting in one of their productions called