![]() ![]() I wasn’t a strong or natural reader and I didn’t gravitate to books, except for at some point Gary Paulsen’s novels entered my life. That got me thinking that I wanted to write a narrative that offered an alternative to that, and I began also thinking about who I was as a reader around that age. I was bringing her from the library and buying lots of young adult novels that were receiving critical attention and being recommended, and I would check out some of them and this recurring narrative showed up-boy saves girl, and that bothered me. ![]() “Writers are constantly struggling with confidence and being able to replicate what you did before.” Did you set out to write a YA novel, or did it just sort of happen?Įliot Treichel: It was something that I set out to do in part because when I started the book my daughter was about 13. And it does help with confidence,” he said. “It’s a wonderful recognition, and I feel really humbled and grateful for it. That is your only cause.” That’s Treichel’s mantra after his young adult novel, A Series of Small Maneuvers, won the Oregon Book Awards’ readers choice award in April. On Eliot Treichel’s desk is a quote from Wild writer Cheryl Strayed: “Your cause is to write a great book and then to write another great book and to keep writing them for as long as you can. Oregon author Eliot Treichel adds gravity with his writing for young adults written by Sheila G. ![]()
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