I am interested in intense, unbreakable emotional connections and oftentimes, such connections can be found between siblings.
Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.
People of color are not under any kind of obligation beyond working hard, doing their best, and learning from their mistakes.
Whiteness is not the default in my fiction.
I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.
What is it like to be connected to someone you can never get away from, for better or worse? I love trying to answer that question.
My dad is a workaholic so I take after him in this respect.
Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel.
No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most of which are at least seven years or more old.
I don't know that anyone in the United States is taught to rest.
The more successful I get, the more I am reminded that in the minds of a great many people I will never be anything more than my body. No matter what I accomplish, I will be fat, first and foremost.
I write because I love doing it.
I never imagined that I would be the kind of person who is recognized when I am out and about just living my life.
I never imagined any of the success I am currently experiencing.
I am new to superhero comics, though growing up I read Archie comics, religiously. I've been doing a lot of catching up, reading what's out there and it's been wonderful to see what's going on in contemporary comics.
I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.
Feminism is definitely a part of everything I do.
My tweeting is cool and calm unless I am riled up about something and then I just surrender to the fury of my fingers.
I see my tweets as a current joining a bunch of other currents in the world's craziest ocean.
Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and my [redacted]. See what I did there?
Twitter has allowed the conversation to broaden and become more inclusive. At times, the conversation is really tense but that's because we're talking about really important issues. It's not going to be easy but at least the conversations are happening.
That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable, they don’t meet our mutable, varying standards. Certainly we can find kinship in fiction, but literary merit shouldn’t be dictated by whether we want to be friends or lovers with those about whom we read.
Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don't think it means that we should overlook feminism as having nothing valuable to contribute.
I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.
When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, "Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious."
