You were never what I wanted to forget.

I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.

I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

I don’t want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick – even the bad ones – so I repeat them often.