“I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to ge...”

“I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. W...”

“I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.”