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.

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

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

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.

Our love is our burden.

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.