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Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.

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.

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

Adult novels are as ephemeral as newspapers. Children's books stay in print for decades.

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

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

So far it's 43 books in 25 years.

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

A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying.