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I was raised to be very wary of the police. I was raised to stay away from them unless you absolutely have to. Because they're dangerous.

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Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy.

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Knowing about authors' beliefs helps you understand how those beliefs influence their writing, and things you thought meant one thing, once you've got enough information about that writer, you suddenly realize mean an entirely different thing. That makes a difference.

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I think the people who believe that works can and always should be divorced from the context are people who have the privilege to do so.

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There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same recourse.

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All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish.

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It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing.

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Any writer kind of who knows what they're doing goes forth and grabs a copy of an issue of something that they want to be published in, or they skim it online. They read what that market has been doing. They see a particular flavor of fiction.

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I've been very happy with Orbit and am thrilled that they're giving me more chances to explore my creative visions.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 19th, 1972

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