An Urban Novelist Never Minds A Little

Mom Was A Smoker. My Grandfather Was A Smoker. My Aunts Were Smokers. My Uncles Were Smokers. I Don't Know Any Smokers Now, Not Even My Mom.

In My Experience, There Is Only One Motivation, And That Is Desire. No Reasons Or Principle Contain It Or Stand Against It.

If There's Anything Trollope Novels Always Take Seriously, It Is Money - How It Flows From One Character To Another, How It Is Managed, Who Has It, Who Deserves It, And What It Means To A Character, Male Or Female.

The One Thing ... Maybe No Family Could Tolerate Was Things Coming Out Into The Open.

The Only Siblings I Have Are Half-siblings. My Nuclear Family Would Have Been An Extra-suffocating Threesome. Instead, I Have An Interesting Brother And Sister, In-laws, And Darling Nephews.