I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own.

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason - and it's not to fail and die.

I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.

I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes of famous people. Nor do I have any interest in the really gross, dark stuff that some people pay top-dollar, like post-mortem photos of babies (yuck) or press photos of old murder scenes or whatever. I collect in these little niches most other people don't care about -- dark-and-weird-but-fun -- and photos that have been written on, which a lot of sellers think hurts their value. All of which is good news for me!

There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.

When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.