Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

Now that The Thorn and the Blossom has come out and I'm done with my doctoral degree (yes, I'm finally Dr. Goss), I'm turning to longer projects.

If you look at the natural world, really look at it, it's always magical.

Delia Sherman once told me that you never learn to write a story. You only learn to write the story you are currently writing. You have to learn how to write the next story all over again. And she's absolutely right.

Of course, with Papaveria Press, you know the book itself is going to be beautiful.

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.

It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When we fall in love, the world feels magical to us. It becomes an enchanted place.