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"The assignment is not always about joy. We are no more obligated to write pure happiness than we are permitted to live it."

"Whenever I return, it feels like homecoming, and I always knew it was only a matter of time before I wrote my New York Book."

"It’s been an honor to share my community and my culture with readers, and I think Canto Contigo is so specifically a celebration of that."

"With the lack of control and feeling of helplessness and also the need for some fun escapism, something just clicked in my head, so I picked up these two story-idea threads and weaved them together."

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"when I think back to the music of my childhood, a lot of it is country"

"It’s been so exciting to see more and more books come out with trans protagonists, and I am so proud to add to that much-needed wave."

"There are tales from all over the world, from a variety of different cultures that share many of the same elements of the typical Faust narrative."

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"I do, however, continue to write fanfiction in some different fandoms these days, and I will never admit to anyone which fandoms or who I am!"

"Part of fear is the unknown, and so that’s a balance I consider a lot."

"That got me thinking about the fallibility of memory and how reliant we are on other people to tell us the stuff we can’t remember ourselves."

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"These were the things I had originally shied away from writing about, and now I embraced wholeheartedly."

"In many ways, writing Brynn’s story felt healing."