At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

Family!... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death.

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

In a way, the characters often do take over.

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.