As a computer scientist, Author and Illustrator Gene Luen Yang says the way he can explain the specialness of a printed book is that it can have both sequential access and random access … meaning, the reader can read the story in order or can jump around.
From the time he could read and started loving books, Author and Illustrator Gene Luen Yang has kept an “awesome shelf” of books. One book on that shelf about graphic novels convinced him that the medium of comics/graphic novels could carry any story he wanted to tell.
Hours of exercise early in the day help Author M.T. Anderson settle down to write, usually late at night, for several hours, when his brain is best poised create stories, scenes, and characters.