2. She said that she was 17 years old.
3. She said that she had already written two novels.
4. She said that she had started writing when she had been 14.
5. She said that she lived in California but she had been born in Hong Kong.
6. She said that the first language she had spoken was Japanese.
7. She said that apart from writing, she was just a regular teenage girl.
8. She said that her next novel would be out that summer.
