I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.

The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

A story is built on characters and reasons.