Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.