I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those of you thinking you might need your demons in order to be creative: I beg to differ.

I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.