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!

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

One thing that was inspiring to me in my research about [Georgia] O'Keeffe was to learn that in addition to her success she had very hard times, and times when she was frustrated and uninspired.

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.

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.

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

I was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are not my favorite. I didn't really become familiar with her work until after I started writing the book, but the more I learned about her the more I admired her.