As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.