Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.

In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.