Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
