Apart from a small minority, teenage boys fall into three distinct categories: macho, metro, or just plain muddled.

My school is very good and quite understanding and know I have to take time off for interviews or writers' festivals.

I was the kind of kid who was always making up stories and adventures.

The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from William Faulkner's haunted antebellum home to the banks of the Mississippi to the wind that whispers through the cotton fields.