For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.

You should know the truth about the stars--- even though it seems like they're close together, up there in heavens, they're zillion light years apart.

It's nice to dig deeper into people who may look one way but always have a story to tell. I obviously write about that a lot.

The best secrets are the most twisted

If the next car passed is blue, Violet will be okay, she thought. If it's red, A will do something horrible to her. She heard a growl of an engine and shut her eyes, afraid to see what the future might hold. She'd never cared so much about anything in her life. Just as the car was passing, she opened her eyes and saw a Mercedes hood ornament. She let out a long sigh, tears coming to her eyes once more. The car was blue.

I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.