Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I feel it would be presumptuous of me to dictate that.

I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.

...it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I feel it would be presumptuous of me to dictate that.

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.