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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.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

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.

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel or two - are more common than authors who begin by writing for young adults and who then gravitate toward composing something for an adult audience.

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.

I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had a teenage character in almost every adult novel that I've written.