The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

I have an idea. It’s risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out.” Iggy raised his head. “Sounds like my kind of idea.

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

Call me crazy, but there's just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.

you're a diabolical little pyro, aren't you? He blushed modestly.