I'm thrilled to have Albert Borris on my blog today.
He is the author of Crash Into Me.
1. What initially created your interest in being a counselor?
Being a child in a family with an alcoholic parent may have something to do with it.
2. What is the most challenging part of that career?
The most challenging part of my career has been suicides.
3. What would be the best advice you could give a teen who is experiencing problems?
Talk. Talk and talk and talk. Talk to your best friend; your parents; the police; a counselor. They are places you can go for help and people who really want to help. Call 800-999-9999, a voluntary, safe and confidential helpline.
4. You have traveled to so many places. What one sticks out in your mind as your favorite adventure?
One place that sticks out in my mind is India. Poverty, so much poverty, it blows my mind.
5. Crash Into Me involves the difficult issue of teen suicide. What do you hope teens and adults take from reading this book?
I hope they know that are not alone and there are people and places available to teens for help!
6. What would people be surprised to know about you?
My readers may not know that I had a stroke. People usually don’t become aware of that. No kidding! Also, I just renewed my marriage vows with my wife of ten years in Belize!
7. Can you share with us your general philosophy of life? What rules you strive to go by.
My philosophy on life is “this too shall pass.” I don’t know who said it, but I agree.
Crash Into Me by Albert Borris Publisher: Simon Pulse (July 21st, 2009) Reading Level: Young Adult Hardcover: 257 pages Owen, Frank, Audrey, and Jin-Ae have one thing in common: they all want to die. When they meet online after each attempts suicide and fails, the four teens make a deadly pact: they will escape together on a summer road trip to visit the sites of celebrity suicides… and at their final destination, they will all end their lives. As they drive cross-country, bonding over their dark impulses, sharing their deepest secrets and desires, living it up, hooking up, and becoming true friends, each must decide whether life is worth living--or if there's no turning back.
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Thanks to Albert Borris for the interview and The Teen {Book} Scene for the tour opportunity!