Shannon Grogan's "From Where I Watch You"

Shannon Grogan is a 2nd grade teacher who writes at night, and at Starbucks or the library while her kids are at ballet and baseball, in a tiny logging town east of Seattle, WA. She holds degrees in education and graphic design/illustration. When she isn�t writing or teaching, she likes baking (gluten-free), shopping at Target, losing to her kids at Skip Bo or Apples to Apples, camping, or wishing she was on a beach. But usually she�s reading, or watching scary movies like Jaws, or reality TV like Cake Boss or Long Island Medium.

Here Grogan shares some ideas about adapting her new YA thriller, From Where I Watch You, for the big screen:

This is easy. If they made my book into a film, I'd love two totally unknown actors to play the lead roles. I definitely have a visual image for my characters, and they don�t look like anyone I know or have seen in real life. Well, except Charlie�he has hair like Josh Duhamel.

I think Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, if they were younger, could play the characters, but they kind of have a famous movie together. (The Notebook!)

As for directors, David Lynch (Twin Peaks). We were born in the same town, Missoula, Montana, so, you know�

Of course if he were still around, Alfred Hitchcock. A girl can dream, can�t she?

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--Marshal Zeringue