Love Can Smack You Like A Seagull,

I First Told The Idea To An Editor I Had Met Who, After Reading One Of My Novels For Adults That Was Set In A High School, Had An Idea That I Might Write Something For Children.

I Do What I Do," I Said, "in Order To Do Something Else.

It Was A Curious Feeling, That Something Could Be So Close And So Distant At The Same Time.

I Was Stupid, The Official Descriptive Phrase For Happy.

Adverbs Is A Book About Love, And I Thought That Was Pretty Cheerful, But People Who Are Reading It Now Are Telling Me That It's Actually Quite Dark.