I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

Snoring keeps the monsters away.

Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.

The parent reads the book. The kid reads the book and then they can talk about the characters instead of talking about themselves. You know there's a connection even if you don't talk about it when you read the same books.

I'm a people person. I never get tired of watching people, especially young people.