When People Write To Me With Stories,

A Memoir Is Always The Most Authentic Telling Of A Situation, But A Novel Gets To Different Places.

There's Not A Thing Wrong With You, You're Right The Whole Way Through.

I Actually Tried To Think Of The Story [room] In Gender-neutral Terms At First And Said To Myself, "ok, Would This Work If It Were A Man?" Well No, You Can't Make A Man Pregnant, So It's Got To Be A Woman.

In The Publishing World, Most Editors Are Probably Women. So I Don't See The Publishing World As A Male-dominated One, Especially Within Fiction.

...real Loneliness Is Having No One To Miss. Think Yourself Lucky You've Known Something Worth Missing.