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

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

I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left.

I'm working on a novel about a girl who grows up in the circus and her relationship with her father, who grew up in Hungary when it was under Soviet control and left during the 1956 revolution. It is told from both of their perspectives, and has been a joy (and very frustrating) to research and write. Needless to say, I am very excited about my next project!

When Ivy [Wilkes] begins her work in forgery, she doesn't yet know the toll that it will take on her own original work. She even thinks it might be a way to find inspiration. By the time she realizes that she has lost her own voice, she is thoroughly entangled in the forgery mess.

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.

Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received one billion rejections, until I was fortunate enough to be matched up with the Permanent Press.