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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

I write with teenagers in mind.

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.

My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.

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.

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.