I don't think anyone's normal.

Fewer publishers mean you have a limited set of aesthetics, so you know who can and can't send your work to. You have more situations where you take the offer or don't get published or you learn to self-publish.

I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed.

I've had people who see all my characters as Native, even if they aren't. It's kind of like assuming all a writer's characters are really female because the writer is a woman. I've learned to let that go.

In general, Americans like to be entertained. Canadians seem more suspicious of it.

Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.

I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers.