I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.

It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.

I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of course meant more masks and dancing. I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job.

I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

There is a love of wood, as of other things that do not answer to our touch.