Last week I was a guest on the Sample Chapter Podcast, and had a great conversation with host Jason Meuschke.

Some of the things we talked about were:

• How I became a writer in spite of myself
• My favorite part of the process of writing, and why it’s often a problem
• How a random news story inspired the theme of my debut novel, Flight of the Spark
• How a failure to buy bread in a Russian market taught me an important principle about wordbuilding.

To listen to the episode, click here. And if you enjoyed the episode, I’d love it if you’d leave a review.