In your novel GAMMA GLAMMA, Luz’s closest pals, Bridge and Adam, help her with her experiments. Who showed you support while you were writing this novel?

For starters it was my literary agent, Nicholas Lewis who was very supportive of me to turn my TV show into a book. If he hadn’t challenged me to do so, there wouldn’t be a GAMMA GLAMMA.

Writing a novel, I found out can be a lonely experience sometimes. But what kept me going is I had a friend of mine name Rodney Stringfellow who is a brilliant TV writer. Rodney writes for the Backyardigans, Little Einstein and the Wonder Pets.

Rodney wanted to write a novel at the same time. So every week or every so many pages, we had to turn in something to each other. Being accountable made a huge difference to getting both our novels finished. Along the way when were writing, we gave constructive criticism to help tell the best story we could at the time.

My brother John Flores (who is third of the six kids) was instrumental because he works at a college library and is a playwright. (In fact, he has a world premiere play that he wrote that’s going on in PRAGUE! It’s called THE HALLUCINOGENIC TOREADOR based on the life and painting of Salvador Dali. Check it out at www. praguefringe. com) John gave me great insight on GAMMA GLAMMA

And lastly my biggest support was my husband/crushable Mike Swenson. He encouraged me along the way to keep on going and would help with the edits. He has amazing patience and intelligence. I also helps that he’s “man-some”.

Who inspires you?

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