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How I Write

I write for the pleasure of exploring the things I observe around me. Real events often provide the starting point, but I use fiction to look beyond what happened and imagine the decisions, motivations and unintended consequences that might have led there.

I am less interested in dividing people into heroes and villains than in understanding how ordinary, often well-intentioned actions can combine to produce extraordinary—and sometimes catastrophic—outcomes. People make decisions with incomplete information, respond to incentives and pressures, and rarely foresee every consequence of what they do.

My stories usually begin with a simple question: How did we get here? I then imagine the people, choices and circumstances that might provide an answer.

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