It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.

I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.

She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.

Hard work's a good distraction.

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.