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With few exceptions, the publishing industry has come to a consensus: if a book has a young protagonist, and if its worldview is primarily interested in the questions that crop up when coming of age, then it's a young adult novel.

With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.

Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.