Statement

Fiction has been described as the history of private life. The novel was in its early years a “history” of its characters, often presented as diaries or letters, and historians regarded it as competition, as they had been the great storytellers before. The idea of history continues to change, most dramatically by the scientific method. Science and science fiction both influence the fields of belief. The possibilities excite me. I’ve come to love history as I’ve aged enough to accumulate some of my own, and some of my work includes long looks at the past.

In fiction I find a safe place to visit deeply personal matters both real and speculative. I admire authors who can suspend disbelief long enough to present a world with different magic and different unseen powers than in the one we know.

I find a universal modern morality in popular characters. The attempt to create them drags me along on the hero’s journey.