Hi! Thank you for checking out my website. If designing this didn't feel sometimes like an exercise in futility I don't know what is! But apparently even first-time authors need to have a site these days... or so they told me. (Maybe that's just something they tell you before they send you the bill?) Anyway, here I am. Now buy my book, please. (Just kidding.) Let me know if you have a website, I'd be happy to return the visit. Yes, I'll admit it. I've dabbled in benign addictions— chocolate, wine, Starbucks, books. My overdeveloped fondness for—okay, dependence on—English Breakfast tea in the morning might or might not make me an addict, although I think those sorts of irresistible enjoyments fall more in the category of what Freud called the pleasure principle. But when it comes to the creative process, I'm a junkie. My creative cravings are fed through writing fiction. Good, bad or ugly, the process itself produces some kind of endorphin rush that I need to keep feeling sane. And there's another way I get a fix: through the palpable creative energy of visual art. The kind of “good art” defined by one of my favorite artists, Ed Ruscha as art that should elicit a response of "Huh? Wow!" as opposed to "Wow! Huh?" I'm addicted to that "Wow." I've been writing for a long time, as long as I can remember. People ask me what motivated me to write this book. And I have to say I can't remember, I was nine. I'm just slow. That's not entirely a joke. Motivation to write is something like a curse. In Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, my narrator, Mia, is cursed with her own artistic ambitions. I've always been interested in creative people, and people I like to think of as Culturally Curious. If you're that type of person, I think I would like you. Unless you have no sense of humor. I like funny stuff. Make me laugh and I'll fall in love with you. I'm easy that way. Not literally in love, I'm already very much in love with my husband. He happens to be a very funny guy and we've been married almost 17 years. (Yes, I was a fetus when we met.) If you have any funny stories to share, especially if they're related to writing, art, parenting, being single, being married, home design, spirituality, and well, just about anything interesting, please pass them along. I'm working on another novel and I could use the material! > Read Danielle's Favorite Things
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