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I just finished my 11th book last week, so I'm ready to start the next one.

While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm not sure where the story is going.

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

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

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.

My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.