To Get Along With God, Consider The

I'm Me, And I'm Here, And I'm Writing.

People Have The Right To Call Themselves Whatever They Like. That Doesn't Bother Me. It's Other People Doing The Calling That Bothers Me.

I'm A 48-year-old Writer Who Can Remember Being A 10-year-old Writer And Who Expects Someday To Be An 80-year-old Writer. I'm Also Comfortably Asocial -- A Hermit In The Middle Of Los Angeles -- A Pessimist If I'm Not Careful, A Feminist, A Black, A Former Baptist, An Oil-and-water Combination Of Ambition, Laziness, Insecurity, Certainty, And Drive.

I Began Reading Science Fiction Before I Was 12 And Started Writing Science Fiction Around The Same Time.

We Give Our Dead To The Orchards And The Groves. We Give Our Dead To Life.