To me, I'm a storyteller.
I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.
There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.
I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.
All my books are optimistic!
I've written under the radar for quite some time, and I always looked at editing as writing.
To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that I don't necessarily get to tell.
My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted.
Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.
I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.
Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.
