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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

I'm obsessed with my children.

I think everybody has something that they've been obsessed about in their lifetime.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.

I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.