"For me, writing is a process of finding connections," A. C. LeMieux once commented. "It's not only connecting words, but connecting ideas, symbols, events--and connecting them all to people." LeMieux further elaborated on the act of writing in ALAN Review: "If I had to characterize the core of my writing process, I'd describe it as making connections. Connecting small graphic symbols into groupings which carry meaning. Connecting words into ordered strings which hopefully compound the meaning. Connecting sentences until the constructs of language are as laden with meaning as I can make them--ideas, events, symbols, all connected to character--the whole hopefully forming a conduit for human meaning, leading to a reader, the final connection." In this "final connection," LeMieux has been eminently successful, attracting loyal teenage and preteen readers for problem novels like The TV Guidance Counselor, which deals with teen depression and suicide, and Do Angels Sing...