Science fiction, fantasy, and superhero comics formed the core of my younger reading, though I branched into historical and mystery, myth and legend, even the odd bit of mainstream fiction. With adolescence and then the demands of adulthood that tapered off a bit, but it’s been a rare month when I haven’t knocked off at least a couple of books. Sometimes only a little bit, but more often a couple of chapters, and in summers when I was off from school, a book or two a day. From the time I learned to read until fifteen or so I read pretty much every day. I grew up on books, reading every chance I got in my childhood. It’s an enormous privilege that I get to do something I love so much as my job, and that I get to see my work on the same shelves with the writers who were such a huge part of making me who I am today. I don’t think that I shall ever get used to the idea. Despite this being my fifth book launch, I find myself as elated and baffled and nervous and delighted and just plain punchy about the idea that something I wrote is hitting shelves all over the country today as ever.
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