And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd felt when the sun finally dropped into the center of her window and was captured inside her circle of wire. Now he turned to her, grinning. Her hair and face were aflame with orange light. "See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.

I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.

'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.