A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT.

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.

How to be the best that you can be

Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising.

Why can't you just get married in Las Vegas like normal Americans?

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.