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Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in 'Enclave.'

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People need to believe they can make a difference - that one person standing strong can turn the tide.

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I immerse myself in everything I write; I feel what my characters do. I suffer with them. I cry as I type, sometimes to the point that I can't see the screen.

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My process seems to be unusual in the sense that I don't create worlds before characters. With me, character is king.

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The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.

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My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers.

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I remember when I was a kid, I could never find anything positive about chubby girls. If a girl was pudgy in books, she wasn't okay. She couldn't be happy or make friends unless she lost weight.

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I've tried to be inclusive in my '2B' series. Over the course of three books, I wrote African-American characters, a paraplegic character, gay and lesbian characters, a bisexual, Jewish heroine, a multiracial hero, Korean and Chinese-American characters, and a multiracial supporting character.

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Since becoming aware of the need to be inclusive, I've tried to make my stories broader and more representative of our world.

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