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.