I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

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

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and even painful to explore your own weakness, but it gives you genuine emotion. Characters in fiction come alive because of the believability of their emotional lives and that is what I strive to create.