“Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.”

American writer of young adult and adult fiction

Deb Caletti is an American writer of young adult and adult fiction. She has been a National Book Award finalist and a Michael L. Printz Honor Book medalist, and her work has also received several other awards. Her novels often draw on the Pacific Northwest, and her young adult fiction is noted for taking on difficult subjects usually associated with adult literature. Her first adult novel, "He's Gone," was published in 2013, and she has since written more books for adult readers as well as many titles for teens.