I Wasn't Interested In The Kinds Of

My Characters Live Inside My Head For A Long Time Before I Actually Start A Book. They Become So Real To Me, I Talk About Them At The Dinner Table As If They Are Real. Some People Consider This Weird. But My Family Understands.

I Wanted To Write Honest Books For Kids Because I Didn't Have Those When I Was A Kid.

Ideas Seem To Come From Everywhere - My Life, Everything I See, Hear, And Read, And Most Of All, From My Imagination. I Have A Lot Of Imagination.

My Insides Still Turn Over When He Looks At Me That Certain Way.

The Child From 9 To 12 Interests Me Very Much. And So, Those Were The Years That I Like To Write About, When I'm Writing.