What I Remember When I Started To

I'm Really Quite Bad At Coming Up With Plot Ideas. I Like To Create Characters And Just See What Will Happen To Them When I Let Them Loose!

Kids Should Read Whatever They Want To Read. So I'm Hoping That Just Like 15-year-olds Read "summer Sisters," I'm Hoping That They'll Read This.

I Stop And Think Before I Start A New Book And Ask Myself Do I Really Want To Spend The Next Year Or Two Or Three With These Characters Because If I Don't, Then I Shouldn't Be Writing About Them.

Librarians Save Lives By Handing The Right Book At The Right Time To A Kid In Need.

My Mother Never Talked About Sex. I Was On The Dr. Ruth [ Westheimer] Show Once - This Is Years And Years And Years Ago - And It Was Her Mother's Day Show. And I Didn't Know What We Were Going To Talk About But What She Decided We Were Going To Talk About Was Female Masturbation. My Mother Had Invited All Her Girlfriends. And You Know These Were All Women In Their Late Seventy's Maybe They Were In Their Eighty's By Then And Then And They Were Horrified Because Dr Ruth Had A Little She Had A Little Chart Up You Know "female Masturbation".