It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.
“Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.”
“Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.”