I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.