People love honesty. Honesty is medicinal, I think. It makes people feel less lonely in the world.

I'm a radio nerd. I've loved radio since I was a kid. I'm a huge Howard Stern fan.

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read a literary biography or a memoir of some kind. And doing so almost always deepens my enjoyment of the author and her work.

To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.

I have way too much going on, as usual, but fortunately it's all good stuff. I'm not complaining.