I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious...
I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But...
It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only...
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice heroism war politics and family struggle.
