Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.
A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.
I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.
You like to think with young adults that with your books, a little part of it has reached them and will stay with them. It is great to be part of an eight-year-old's world.
Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.
Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.