“I am particularly drawn to skin disorders,” Willow explains with a seriousness that is at once amusing and endearing, “which I photograph only if the subject (and one of my parents) isn’t looking.” She also counts by sevens to establish a soothing sense of order. Willow applies her prodigious intelligence to her hobbies: a thriving and varied backyard garden, and the diagnosis of medical conditions. Sloan has created a story where the line between youth and adulthood moves back and forth. I wouldn’t have had so much time on my hands, and started writing a book.”įortunately, Sloan’s husband was not harmed during the writing of her brilliant second book, Counting by 7s, which draws readers into the singular world of eccentric 12-year-old Willow Chance. “If I hadn’t gone on a crazy vacation in Mexico, where I was on my own and my husband was in a stone hut, sick. Then, gastrointestinal disaster struck-and between her husband being out of commission for a week and the resort’s no-Internet-or-TV policy, Sloan found she had some time to kill.
They were able to get a limited amount of shrimp, so he ordered that.” The first night, I asked if they had meat or protein of any kind. It turned out we went to a vegetarian yoga resort, which was totally cool with me, but my husband isn’t a vegetarian and doesn’t do yoga. In a phone call from her Santa Monica, California, home, Sloan told BookPage the story of how her first book came to be: “My friend asked us to go on a trip, and didn’t give a lot of specifics.
But for her, it touched off a life-changing transition from screenwriter (numerous feature films, including Angels in the Outfield) to author (2011’s I’ll Be There, and now Counting by 7s). Holly Goldberg Sloan credits her career change, and her subsequent success as an author of children’s books, to something a little different: a lucky shrimp.Īlas, said shellfish wasn’t so felicitous for Sloan’s husband. Some people have lucky numbers others have lucky stars.
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