and he said, "you are judy blume. "you stand for honesty and truth. how could you even consider changing it?" and so i didn't, and so we lost all the book club sales. and it was mentioned in reviews, in school journals so that teachers would know if they ordered this book there was a word in it. it just--it boggles the mind-- very expensive word. that this is where we are. this is a recent-- a more recently published book than some of the others. you know, another trend we hear of today that you didn't see early in your career is a concern, i think, about the occult, witches, the supernatural, and the backlash against harry potter. what do you make of that? any--any thoughts on that? well, i think it's-- there was a very interesting article, actually, in the horn book-- in the may/june edition of this year of horn book, in which a conservative christian tried to explain to all of us why this was a problem. and it was a very good article, because it kind of helped me to at least step back long enough, take a deep breath and understand that for some peo