I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told is also expanding.

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.

I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.

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

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

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.

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.