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!

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.

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

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.

I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O'Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis series) my favorite thing about the museum is the architecture. I love how enormously tall the doors are - it is like going into a church. There is also something home-like about the layout of the museum. I wish I could live there!

From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically.