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I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.

I like stories that affect families.

I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist.

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

I like human stories. I like stories about situations we can relate to. I like movies like 'Ordinary People' or 'Terms of Endearment.' Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, boyfriends, girlfriends. The stories to me that are worth telling are almost simple ones, but very relatable.

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

I like the stories with the historical themes.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.