It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your "reporting" that you do.

It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your "reporting" that you do.

You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.