Gender	Female
Occupation	Novelist
Location	California, United States
Introduction	Welcome! I write quirky, character-driven contemporary fiction. Courting Greta will be released by Gallery Books (part of Simon & Schuster) in 2013.
Interests	Literary brawls, disability in fiction, volunteerism, ethnic food, travel, Jesus, books, writing.
Favorite books	Something Wicked This Way Comes, Cyrano de Bergerac, A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Time Traveler's Wife, Beowulf, Boswell's Life of Johnson

Whoops! Your tongue is now a magnet. Whatever will you use for silverware?

Chopsticks and Chinese soup spoons. Is it weird that I had to go check to make sure a magnet would stick to my silverware just in case this was a trick question?