Inspired by real life experience, Megan Bostic's frank and heartfelt novel Never Eighteen deals with some fairly serious themes, including mortality, sickness and also the desire to make your mark and help others. The author, would have definitely been a rock star in another life, shares details here.

The convention center is in the middle of Hartford, about a forty-minute train ride from our college campus to the edge of the city. The building is nestled into a hill. The five glass-windowed stories of the lobby stare out across the highway like a king surveying his lands. To one side of the center is the attached hotel, a river of white stairs spilling between them.