I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.

I will say in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

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.

I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people are incredibly creative, business is done based on the strength of relationships, and the product being peddled is books.

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.