I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.

During that first year, I felt guilty that my wife was out working bringing in all our income, while I was at home playing on the computer, so I made myself treat writing like a job.

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.

Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health.

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.

For fifty years, I was a part-time model, but basically, I'm a nutritionist, a teacher, a mother.