Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

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

Write what you care about.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more