My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

We'd need a miracle," he says. "A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Don't ask me how I am,' I blurt. 'Please.' I want to keep feeling good. Just because the lights are on doesn't mean I have to look.

I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.

You were never what I wanted to forget.