I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

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

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

I've spent many a day worrying that I will never be able to write again!

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

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.

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