


As always, thank you to my writing BFF, Mandy Hubbard or Amanda Grace or whatever she goes by these days, who is the definition of persistence and determination and the reason I’ve been able to keep a positive outlook even on the very bleakest days.

In selecting characters for my movie, I'd love to find characters who are actually young, since the two main characters are 16 and 17. I'm not one of those people, as I've slowly come to learn that readers care less about the color of one's hair and eyes than what makes a character tick. Here she shares some suggestions for casting the leads in an adaptation of Touched: I know of authors who cut out pictures of famous actors and actresses so they can better understand what their characters look like.

She lives outside Allentown, Pennsylvania with her husband and daughters. Cyn Balog is the author of the young adult paranormal novels Fairy Tale, Sleepless, Starstruck, Touched, and Dead River.
