TMI? Too Much Information. It”s just easier to say 'TMI'. I used to say 'don't go there', but that's lame.

I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

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.

Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.

The SUV was the only car moving. Josh had his foot pressed flat to the floor, and the needle on the speedometer hovered close to eighty. He was becoming more comfortable with the controls—he hadn't hit anything for at least a minute.

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.