From Stevens's Q & A with Melissa Mia Hall at Publishers Weekly:
Before you escaped the Children of God cult, you once had your stories confiscated and burned.--Marshal Zeringue
Those in charge just took them and told me they burned them. I ended up being locked away for three days in a room with no food because they wanted to exorcise the devils out of me.
How old were you?
Fifteen.
When did you decide to become a writer?
I finally had a chance to read back in the United States. I was about 31. I had two little kids, and I was a stay-at-home mom. It was after reading the Jason Bourne trilogy that I made the decision to write. I wanted to be able to create in others the same emotion, the connection, the excitement that I felt when reading these books. I want to take people places where they've never been before. Robert Ludlum is my hero of writers.
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