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.

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

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

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

Screw you, John." "Sorry, Sylvie. Can't—they frown on that kind of thing between step-siblings.

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

Emery cut in impatiantly, "For crying out loud. Who do you think you are, Nancy Drew?" Hey," I snapped, because no one sniped at my sister but me, and Mark echoed with a stern "Chill, dude." Phin was unperturbed. "Those books were highly unrealistic. Do you have any idea how much brain damage a person would have if she were hit on the head and drugged with chloroform that often?