Dad Decided Not To Vote For Donner

I'm A 48-year-old Writer Who Can Remember Being A 10-year-old Writer And Who Expects Someday To Be An 80-year-old Writer. I'm Also Comfortably Asocial -- A Hermit In The Middle Of Los Angeles -- A Pessimist If I'm Not Careful, A Feminist, A Black, A Former Baptist, An Oil-and-water Combination Of Ambition, Laziness, Insecurity, Certainty, And Drive.

No... A Novel Is A Long Business. I'm A Slow Writer, Even When I'm Doing Very Well I Write Slowly.

Better To Stay Alive," I Said. "at Least While There's A Chance To Get Free." I Thought Of The Sleeping Pills In My Bag And Wondered Just How Great A Hypocrite I Was. It Was So Easy To Advise Other People To Live With Their Pain.

And By The Way, I Wanted To Point Out That Kindred Is Not Science Fiction. You'll Note There's No Science In It. It's A Kind Of Grim Fantasy.

I'm Me, And I'm Here, And I'm Writing.