Lexi and Ruby on Christmas Eve, 2009 - They are the inspiration for "Ruby and the Moon"
As a writer, the dialogue between reality and truth fascinates me. In no small part Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried inspired this fascination, and every metafictional novel I’ve read since then has only fueled my interest. Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction, and sometimes fiction is truer than reality–those are words that I live by.
I have traveled around the world, missing only three-quarters of it. While I’m waiting for my chance to visit the last three-quarters, I keep my feet mostly planted in Pittsburgh with my German Shepherd and Welsh Corgi (who are quite obviously the inspiration for Ruby and the Moon–I didn’t even bother changing their names). I enjoy hybrid and experimental writing, but a good story will get me each and every time, no matter how many times it’s already been told.
And, because everyone likes bullet points and name-dropping, I’ll leave you with a list of authors I want to talk to about the craft–either because I love their work or hate it. I’ll let you sort out the love from the hate. Before I die, I want to meet:
- Neil Gaiman
- Joan Didion
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Margaret Atwood
- Tim O’Brien
- Marjane Satrapi (again…she’s really nice and let me take a picture with her)
- George Lucas
- Bill Willingham
Who would you like to meet?
