When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience.

YEAH! Bring it on, lake!

You're a stalker with hooves." -Percy Jackson

Sometimes it is better to have someone you mistrust close to you, so that you can keep an eye on him - Chiron

I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.

My mother was gone. The whole world should be black and cold. Nothing should look beautiful.

And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this...this--' 'School?