Thunder Road

Adult characters are often absent in YA fiction. That’s absent as in deceased, missing, always working/on holidays … and generally of minor relevance to the plot lines.

I’m always rabbiting on about how stories should be easy to find. My school visits would suggests classrooms are a very rich vein to tap into.

I plan never to grow out of picture books.

By stiffly following convention we stifle creativity. We miss out on unexpected and fresh combinations of words-ideas-sounds-images that have the power of new.