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I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because it's not their profession to do that.

For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself.

I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.

Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.'

I love my children, but I don't really want to talk about them. I'm not that much of a freakish middle-aged mother, I'm just very lucky, and there isn't much more to say. I'd like not to be constantly expected to be a spokesman for things that are part of the natural rhythm of a woman's life.