My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.

There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.

For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.

In this age of the Internet, if you are going to go see someone, you usually look them up first. It can be an advantage and disadvantage. Most of the time, people can Google you and see a couple clips and say, 'Oh I am going to go.' They can kind of co-sign off on you.

I'm very lucky. I'm not too exposed to social media and is going quite well for me. I like to have my privacy.

The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction.