Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

In a way, the characters often do take over.

Fear can give you urgent wings.

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.