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I do a lot of writing about my family.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

My family and friends have been monumentally supportive from well before I was a published author.

I write about families. That is who we are.