A ruby at sunrise...

I sometimes worry that the book will end up being more a story about myself than about the people around me. I don't necessarily enjoy books like that. I don't want to play into that ME format.

I want to be like a ruby held up to the sunlight, taking something simple and beautiful and multiplying it into a thousand tiny crimson shimmers thrown across the grass.

A ruby is pretty. It's the sunlight that makes it dazzling. My writing is okay. It's other people that make it inspired rather than contrived.