Robin Wasserman wrote her first science fiction novel when she was ten years old. Unfortunately, it was only sixteen pages long and a rather blatant rip-off of E.T., so it wasn’t exactly the best launching point for an illustrious publishing career. But two decades later, she tried again, and is now the author of the Skinned trilogy, as well as Hacking Harvard and the Seven Deadly Sins series (which recently aired as a Lifetime miniseries). She lives in New York, where she spends much of her time hunting for the perfect cupcake.
Q. Your Skinned trilogy brings up some interesting questions about what it means to be an individual, or even a person. Given the way Wired ended, could you share your...