“After reading Pat Conroy the first time I began to understand there was a larger world I could read my way into, and it was like discovering […]

“A lot of people, I think, set out to write a novel that will accomplish something. And I guess I’m much more interested in writing a novel […]

“Sometimes when I write a novel, I find that I have injected parts of my ‘lost life’ into the story. I have never lived in […]

“My primary interest in writing my novels is to examine the power of familial love and family dynamics, and how those dynamics change under hardship. Love, […]

Publishing doesn’t make you a writer, writing does. The difference between who I was before I sold the book and who I was after was one phone […]