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.

I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.

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

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.

I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.

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.