It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.
Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.
But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
If fantasy is done well, it has both serious content in a literary fashion and is a really good read as well - and children and young adults won't suffer anything else.
The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.
I'm getting a lot of mail from readers, and I'd say 90% seem to be from adults, which amazes me. But then again, I can only write what I imagine I'd like to read, and I'm an adult, so maybe it's not so surprising after all.
