Open Case File [COMPLETED]

An Odd Encounter

"What inspired you to become a writer?"

"Writing lyrics and realizing what the strongest part was were the stories told within the lyrics. Also realizing that my lyrics weren't great. Next."

Mason stayed seated. That was a short answer. It didn't count.

"If you could go back and change one major thing for any of your books what would it be?"

"In one book about a girl in a private high school I made all the side girl characters around her into really cliché mean girls. I've changed as many as I could but some are key to the plot so I can't. But still, I hate I played into that stereotype. My only excuse was it was one of my earliest books."

"What's your biggest regret when it comes to books/writing?"

"That I can't write fast enough. I have so many story ideas and wish I could be writing them all at once. Yes, you."

"Okay, let me take a minute to fangirl," the reader said.

"Take more than a minute if you want, I am someone who needs approval to keep going in life."

Mason snorted and caught himself, cleared his throat and shifted in his seat. It really was a comfortable chair and he didn't feel like moving.

"I absolutely love love love your books," the reader said. "I introduced my sister to them and she couldn't put them down until she was done."

"Hold up," Joy said. "Please tell me that was like a 'your enthusiasm got your sister hooked' type of situation and not a 'you tied her to a chair and forced her to read them' type situation?"

The crowd chuckled and Mason grinned but quickly remembered himself.

"I talked about them a lot," the reader said.

"Phew, would hate to have another one of those situations again. The last one was brutal. Anyways, your question?"

"If you were to kill off a Keller brother who would you kill? Also if you were to bring a character to life, who would you pick?"

Mason thought of Donovan but Keller was a common name. Besides, he'd figure if anyone tried to kill any of those brothers the other three would make that person regret ever living.

"You have an evil streak," Joy said. "I like that. None of them. I wouldn't live to see the next day. And I'd bring Jace to life. He has such a big heart and cares. I think the world would be a better place with him in it."

"Who would you kill off in the most angsty way?" someone called out.

"Some main character so the entire book would be thrown into a tailspin and every reader would be crushed and in an emotionally weak state letting me do whatever I want. But then knowing you and not being that mean, I'd bring that character back which would somehow cause more devastation. You know, something fun like that."

Mason decided it was best that this girl was an author and not in the world. He didn't know what kind of mayhem she would create simply because she felt like it.

"The best and worst thing about us readers?" a reader asked.

"The best thing: you love and support me even when I'm mean to you by being mean to my characters. Worst thing: you always want more which always makes me want to give you more. Also you ask for chapters that I don't feel like writing but because I love you so much I eventually cave and write them for you."

A pushover, Mason figured. She could sound tough but she was a marshmallow: soft and easily consumed.

"Hi, I was wondering, do you write chapters while you are updating or do you publish after writing all the chapters?"