I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.

The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.

I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.