What is your e-reading device of choice?
I use a Kindle. It was a Christmas gift from my aunt-- device and pretty leather case.
I like that it's compact, lightweight, and because it's one of the originals, no distractions. My only complaint stems from when I was in graduate school-- it didn't display graphs and charts in my textbooks very well.
Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I don't write about where I grew up. The locations in my writing are influenced by the parts of Virginia and Ohio where I went to college, where my relatives lived, and where I live now, in Wisconsin.
Perhaps, as a result, few of my characters still live where they were born.
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