No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most of which are at least seven years or more old.

I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.

I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

I don't know that anyone in the United States is taught to rest.

I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.

Feminism is definitely a part of everything I do.