She Asked Me Why I Always Had

A Dog Could See Your Heart In Your Eyes, Budress Told Him, And Dogs Were Drawn To Our Hearts.

Adults Always Wonder What To Say And How To Say It When They're Talking To A Child. You Want To Be Wise, But All You Are Is A Child Yourself In A Larger Body. Nothing Is Ever What It Seems. The Things That You Think You Know Are Never Certain. I Know That Now. I Wish That I Didn't, But I Do.

People Want You To Be Ordinary.

I Was Digging For Stuff In A Used Bookstore, And I Came Upon 'little Sister.' I Fell In Love With Chandler That Night. I Fell Right Down The Rabbit Hole Of Crime Fiction.

My Fiction Is Almost Always Inspired By A Character's Need Or Desire To Rise Above Him- Or Herself. No One Is Perfect And Some Of Us Have Much Adversity In Our Lives; It Is Those People Who Struggle To Rise Above Their Nature Or Background That I Find The Most Interesting And Heroic.