I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.

They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

Where did you go?" "To the end of the driveway," my mother says. "I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out." I wince. "Do you have to be quite so graphic?" "What would you like me to call it, Zoe? A fetal living room?

I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.