What do they think of having a best-selling author for a teacher?
They are so funny. Kids read my adult novels, but not to this degree. They’re obsessed. Kids stop me in the hall and ask me to put them in the book and kill them. Kids come in to meet me. They’re real nervous, you know? They think it’s cool. When I debuted number 2 on the New York Times best-seller list, my teacher friends and a bunch of kids came in early and decorated the whole hall down to my room. Decorated my room. Flowers and candy and streamers and all of that stuff. I am showing through my actions, not just through lecture, what it is to have excellence in your life. What you can attain if you have talent and drive and ambition and you set yourself a goal. The kids are completely behind me. My peers are behind me. Tell me a little bit about your Marked series. Well, it started out with my agent saying “vampire finishing school.” Two, almost three years ago, at the [RWA National] Conference in Reno. This year it’s in San Francisco. If you’re already published, and already well e
