Samuel Mae lives near the bottom of the world, in Auckland, New Zealand, but spends a lot of time traveling the universes of his imagination—–which sounds corny, but has resulted in him selling short fiction to such places as Electric Velocipede, Stupefying Stories, Wily Writers, and elsewhere.
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To me, the essence of any good young adult story is two-fold. First, there is the element of an innocence that is being broken open and exposed, a young person sidling up to adulthood without all the trappings of wisdom, experience and baggage that we adults have. And second, there is an aspect of rebellion, of throwing off what we've been taught, or told, or been held to as children. Our parents, or guardians, or society say "No" and we say "Hell yes!" and we go for it. 
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