There are a lot of people who like Gray. He has turned around so much.

They've got more potential pros than they've had in a long time.

He's doing things now that (Chris) Taft couldn't do. Taft was a more explosive jumper, but this kid is a smarter basketball player.

I think her leadership status has developed and is good. I think a lot of people knew about her, but her performance in the state championship game opened a lot of other people's eyes, too.

When people ask me why I wrote this book, I answer that very few writers with colorful, exotic parents have failed to write on them, ... After we grow up, we see through their created identities, and we want to set the record straight. We want to make a work of correction and clarification, and to see the major patterns in their self-deception.

It's getting bigger. I've had so many people ask me about it. I don't know if it'll ever be as big as a big-city anime con, but this year we've had companies contact us to be sponsors who we didn't even contact ourselves first. I'm betting it grows.