Once you have a kid, it's amazing how quickly people ask, 'So are you going to stop at just one?'

People have always asked me why I'm drawn to material about kids, and for me, it's - I remember being at that age and feeling completely and utterly powerless. You know, there's so many things you wanna do and so many things you're told you can't do.

You have tremendous freedom in the young adult book world to write what you want. You can put R-rated content in a book that you can't in a similarly targeted movie.

I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way.

Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

There's so much I want to do. But after all I've been through, I realize nothing is more important to me than family.

My father left our family for his 'yoga buddy' in 1984, when I was 15. I always stayed in touch with him - I had a deep need to be connected to my father, even though it could be painful at times. I shunned the yoga community because of his actions but eventually realized that yoga could be the antidote to my pain.

Our family always had animals, but they became more important to me as the years passed because they helped me deal with the absence of love.