Ashley: This was my first book. People ask if it was autobiographical. I do have a really colorful mom. That's kind of what got it started. I guess at the time I didn't really have an active imagination. I think the tone in the book was very true, but there was a lot of "I'm seventeen" vibe to it, and one of my parents did me wrong. Now that I'm parent, I'm like, oh, my god, this is how I'm parenting. My mom, thank goodness, has, I think, forgiven me because people who don't know her thought every single word was true, which it wasn't.