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

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.

The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.

I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.