There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what.

First up, the lost and found has gone missing. It itself, is lost. So please try not to lose anything until we find it.

I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more YA, which is such a great genre to write it. I don't have a favourite (I usually say it's the last book I've written), but certain books do stick in the mind. My very first YA novel, The Children of Lir, will always be special to me, and, of course The Alchemyst because it was a series I'd wanted to write for ages.

They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!

The two that are one, the one that is all!

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.