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I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

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

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

I'd never been published when I was young.

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

I never read articles about my books.

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.