Most Writers Adore Their Editors, And I'm

What I Like Most: Reading Well-written Sources That Take Me To Another World For Hours At A Time - And Being Able To Call That Work! Also, Of Course, Finding A Gem Of Information That Is Either Exactly What I Was Looking For, Or Else Fits Perfectly Into The Story In Some Way.

I Often Have Trouble Falling Asleep At Night, So When I'm Lying In Bed I Think Up Stories. That's Where I Do A Lot Of My Thinking. I Also Get A Lot Of Ideas While I'm Reading - Sometimes Reading Someone Else's Stories Will Make Me Think Of One Of My Own.

Why Was It That Pride And Foolishness Were So Often Close Companions?

Each Of My Books Has Taken Me A Different Length Of Time To Write - Eight Months For Seesaw Girl, Eight Months For Shard, Three Years For When My Name Was Keoko! The Publisher Takes Another Year And A Half To Work On The Book, So Altogether Each Book Can Take Up To Three Or Four Years To Publish.

I Want All My Books To Provoke Some Kind Of Response In The Reader, To Make Them Think Something Or Feel Something Or Both, And For That To Become A Part Of Them And Work Into Their Own Lives.