I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
My dad doesn't like religion much but I grew up very close to the Baptist tradition. God isn't this distant thing. God is right here with you all the time. He's your buddy and you can talk about everything.
My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor...
My dad like many Southern men is this very emotionally expressive person...
It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts ' I...
When I win awards, I think of my father.
To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends and now I'm...
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor...
