I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.

As writer pay declined and teacher pay also, we all started hanging out online. You could say online social networks cheapen our friendships or you could say we were cheapened by a plutocratic power grab and this is all we can afford.

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or look away from.

My interest in women's voices started when I was in the boys' choir and we were singing in opera choruses. That was my first close-up experience with the female soprano voice. I was amazed at how it could be within the same scale but so different in quality.

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.