I wrote an incredibly open first-person POV piece for New Scientist on why I decided to explore how our choices make us the way we are in my latest novel Bridge. From the very beginning, including all the gut-wrenching details, all of which has led up to writing this weird and wonderful, reverse-Persephone story which is so damn close to my heart.
“Isn’t it true for every story you’re writing, every city you go to on your research trips, every person you interview, you think: “I could live here, I could do this: be an artist, a cop, a scientist, a sex worker.” Bridge is the culmination of all that, it is about all the versions of you, every path not taken, every door you have opened or closed.”
Via New Scientist:
What if there was a way to access that (like stepping into a book), a way to live all those other lives, your otherselves, to reconnect with someone you had lost, to reconnect with who you are supposed to be? What would you risk? What price would you be willing to pay?
You have already changed worlds, switched up jobs and loves and friendships, become someone new. You are always in the process of becoming. You are always the sum of your choices.
You can choose to be here, now.