One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.

I mean, I love Barnes and Noble, I spend a lot of time at Barnes and Noble, but they do not have books on Flossing Space Monkeys.

I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.

I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'