complaining of sore throat and sniffles, but not women. she is not old enough to drive a car but at 11, she has published a book and published author. bethany wong wrote "eiffel tower's daughter" when she was 10 years old and will join us to tell her about the book and the message for other aspiring writers. welcome. nice to have you here, bethany. >> hi. thank you for having me. >> uma: this is quite an amazing accomplishment that you were able to publish a book at age of ten. what inspired you to become an author? >> actually, what inspired me was that my mom one day, she bought me a book called the most fascinating places on earth," and i was flipping through several pages and reading about the eiffel tower i thought about what about writing this for that? then i got a good idea and i wrote it down on an index card. it turned into a big story. >> uma: you know a lot of young people your age are asked to do writing