Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

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

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.

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

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.

I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.