My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.

I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.

With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

Please make me either relatable or terrible.

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case basis. When an editor tells me something isn't working and I still believe in it, I tend to think it just isn't working hard enough.