I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write.

At the end, I cobbled scenes all together and smoothed out the transitions as much as possible. Incidentally, I would not recommend this approach to writing a book, and will probably not write that way again!

When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.

The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?

I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.

I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to work a day job!

Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.