He rose to his feet in one fluid move, the better to look down at me. “You don’t know me, princess. Some people have reasons for doing things, and don’t just go wherever they’re told or drift whichever way they’re pushed.

Focus, Amy. Just because he looked great in the saddle did not mean he wasn't an axe murderer.

Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story.

My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction.

I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.

I was generally pro-bat, except when I was trekking through the dark trying not to think about the dire fate of every horror movie character stupid enough to go into the dark with a flashlight and check the fuses.

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.