Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I grew up in and around New York City (Manhattan and the North Jersey suburbs), in the 1960s and the 1970s. I always find (particularly preachy) discussions of "diversity" a little irritating and phony: that's just the water I grew up swimming in. We didn't have to run around angsting or pontificating about it; we just lived it. I would hope that my writing has a degree of texture and complexity to it. Part of where that came from was where I grew up.
When did you first start writing?
I started being professionally (nationally) published when I was in high school. Took a few more decades before I (semi-publicly--given the pen name) "came out" with erotic fiction.
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