I Don't Really Know Exactly How It

Heavy Petting, That Was Fun! That Was Good. And Frankly, You Know I Wish Kids Would Go Back To It. It's Very Satisfying. And It's Not As Scary. So Many Girls, You Know This. I Mean They Are Having What We Call Sex. Right? They're Having Intercourse. They Don't Want To, They Don't Get Anything Out Of It.

I Like To Read Fiction Best And I Like To Write Fiction, Too.

I Like Revising Much, Much Better Than Getting Down A First Draft. The First Draft Is Just Getting The Pieces To The Puzzle. Then I Get To Put The Puzzle Together!

I'm A More Skilled Writer Now, But After 23 Books It's Harder To Be Fresh And That's Really Important To Me. I Don't Want To Write The Same Thing Over And Over Again.

I Know Where "blubber" Came From. It Came From Stories That My Daughter Told Me When She Came Home From Fifth Grade. There Was A Kid In The Class Who Was Being Bullied. We Didn't Even Call It Bullying Then, That's What's So Weird. Victimization In The Classroom. The Word Bully Was So Out, Was So Not In Use For All Those Years And Now It's Back Big Time.