I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.

I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries are in the handwriting of the sister closets in age (5 years my senior). She must have gotten tired of my dictations because she gave up and then my blocky scrawl shows up. I wrote plays as a kid mostly.

I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.