I’ve been asked a lot of questions in the year since Gathering String was published. I was prepared for some of them:
- Is your husband Jack or Sam? (Neither and both.)
- How long did it take to write? (Too long.)
- Do reporters really use such foul language? (F**k yes.)
Some caught me off guard:
- How do you keep from going too far when writing a sex scene? (By going too far and then deleting most of it.)
- What would your mother say about this? (You finally finished something.)
- We hated all your characters. Why didn’t you make them more likeable? (Ouch!)
But there was only one question I had a hard time answering:
- Why did you end it the way you did? (It’s complicated.) Continue reading