One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.