Gianetta Hamerly

I'm a writer who creates stories for my family. I wrote my first book, The Prince and the Gift, for my kids. Now my daughter's grown and gone, but I still have granddaughters, so I'm working on the sequel that would have come after that first book. I use the pen name GK Frost - the Frost part comes from my grandmother. It's funny because I decided to use GK Frost months before the Harry Potter books came out. Before I focused on writing, I was a single mom and I worked myself to death. One of my biggest challenges in writing is that I get stuck semi-often because I know where the story is going, but I don't want to drag through the everyday days that go in between where I am and where I want to go. In my current project, the boys start out young and then you see them again when they're young teens, and I want them to be older. But if you don't see them at those earlier ages and as young teens, you don't see the motivation, you don't see how come they're so different, and you don't see why they become the way they become. They're best friends, and showing that development is important to the story.