I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

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

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.

One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.

It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.