I'm often asked why I prefer to write for children and young adults, and in previous years I struggled with the answer, but it's become clear to me with time that I simply want to escape. The current state of the world, with all its wars and cruelty, urges me to retain a semblance of innocence for the young ones who didn't have a chance to grow up in the kind of world that I reminisce, or the kind of world that they don't often get to see. While it would be easier to simply s