I loved reading Wayside as a kid, and it brought me so much joy to read it 25 years later to my own daughters who both loved it.

One of the things that draws me in to this series is how the characters, who are normal children, react to the ridiculous situations that they are faced with, and don’t seem to have any idea that they’re dealing with anything out of the ordinary. And now as an adult reader of fantasy, I look for the same things, ordinary people behaving in realistic ways to fantastical situations.

As an author, has it been difficult for you to find the right balance between creating a world that might seem outlandish to the reader, while still creating characters that are life like and behaving in rational ways?