[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

hi I hope u want to be my friends

[With "Summer Sisters" the publisher] sent me on a big book tour. And it was the most wonderful professional experience of my life. I mean it was like Kleenex on every table wherever I was, friends patting friends on the back and they'd cry and I'd cry.

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.