“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The best part about I&I posts? Writers are given free rein so they can go wild and write about anything they want: their new book, series or career as a whole. Today we are so very excited to have debut author Lenore Appelhans over as our guest. We have been fans of Lenore’s blog for years and have had the pleasure of meeting and hanging out with her in person a few times over the past few years. Naturally, when we learned that Lenore had a dystopian YA novel coming out, we were floored. Today, Lenore joins us to talk inspirations and influences about Level 2. Give it up for Lenore, everyone! One of the most fascinating aspects of writing for me is when I’m drafting and a plot point or a line of dialogue takes me by surprise. I’ll think, “Ok, wow – where did THAT come from?” And most of the time, I won’t be able to pinpoint an exact inspiration or influence. There are so many tiny nuggets of information that knock around in […]