In 5 months, I'll be out of my teens

My 19th book launches tomorrow. Number 20 will come out in January. I'm out of my teens in another sense. My next five books are all for younger kids. So I can watch the drama and angst surrounding the future of Best Book for Young Adults with total dispassion. (Along with a bit of amusement, since when I suggested some changes might be in order, the reaction was as if I'd proposed making mittens from the flayed skin of newborns. But I digress.)

In one sense, as Eric Luper brilliantly poin