When I attempted college the first time, I did so searching for something to “be” because everyone knows (and said so quite frequently) that writers don’t make any money. Well, I never did find anything else I wanted to “be” and so college lost its appeal. Twenty years and a string of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs later, here I am. I am picking up the part of me that I put down after childhood in pursuit of something responsible to do. I am wiser. I realize money is not what rocks a writer’s world. 

I guess the next question that would need to be answered is why do I write what I write?  The truth is, fiction is a tool that allows me to argue with myself about whatever I find most interesting at the moment. I write science-based suspense because science is what I am most interested in. My goal is first to write a story that I would want to read and second to create enthusiasm and dialog about a subject I find interesting. I try hard to get the science right because if you’re going to be sitting there after finishing one of my novels and saying to yourself, “Surely, that couldn’t really happen, could it?”  I would like the answer to be, “Yes!”

 

Is it? Well, feel free to research and debate!