Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

Write what you care about.

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.

I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.

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