Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.

Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.