I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.

I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.

People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.