I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.

I have two dogs myself and they are always around when I write, so they tend to creep in there.

I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.

Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on this collection for four years. I have always been a little unsure of whether I could make it as a writer so I've held other jobs and worked on other projects this whole time.

I've found that I seek out oddballs; I like strange and eccentric people a lot.

I've worked in several different places, most of my experience comes from spending eight summers at a camp for adults with a wide range of disabilities. For six years I spent every summer living in a small cabin with five men with Downes Syndrome. It was just me and these five guys, all in their forties and fifties. We had such a great time.

I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.