TSR:
What
does the word "story"
mean to you?
TS:
A short work of writing that keeps your attention and provides some kind of satisfaction, usually emotional, by its end.
TSR:
Do you have a reader in mind when you write stories?
TS: Me.
I bore easily and since I have to read and rewrite a story hundreds
of times, I like to keep raising the bar.
TSR: Is
there
anything you'd like to ask someone who has read your collection, anything at all?
TS: Did
they go to the stories first for a taste, or start right at the
novella?
TSR: How does
it feel knowing that people are buying your book?
TS:
I’m
delighted. However, it’s very hard to find out how many, given the
big market of resale through Amazon.
TSR:
What are you working on now?
TS: A
novel about a contemporary Scylla, one of the two demons in the
Odyssey. In September this year (2010) Dzanc Books will publish Pirate
Talk or Mermalade, a
novel about two pirates who are brothers who meet a mermaid. It’s
written only in voices and it was very amusing to write. Sometimes
constraints create more interesting writing. In 2011, Bison Books is
publishing another girl of mine, Bohemian
Girl,
a story about a girl who was lost in a bet by her father to an
Indian. It’s my answer to Willa Cather, who also appears in it. I
haven’t abandoned the short story. I hope to make another book out of the hundred or
so that I have published since Trailer
Girl,
but it’s easier to publish another novel.
