Why do you favor fiction or non-fiction? Fantasy or memoir? YA or sci-fi? What is it that draws you to the particular kind of writing you typically do?

In six words, tell us: What do you love about your genre?

(Remember: six words--no more, no less!)

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The opportunity to kiss the darkness.

History: we are what we were.

Short stories: the distillation of chaos.

Fantasy lets your imagination go wild. ;)

  I'm somebody else, several other somebodies.

Most problems resolved, unlike real life.

Because fiction is reality made believable.

Memoir: It is What I Know

Reporting from the edge of chaos.

I can love with reckless abandonment

Peony's scent inked to the page

Memoir:I re-create, then, I understand.

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