“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“Remember that pianist who said that if he did not practice every day he would know, if he did not practice for two days, the critics would know, after three days, his audiences would know.

“A variation of this is true for writers. Not that your style, whatever that is, would melt out of shape in those few days.

“But what would happen is that the world would catch up with and try to sicken you. If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy, or both.

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“In 1999, in the face of mainstream publishers’ seeming indifference to LGBTQ+ writing, she was instrumental in setting up and administering an authors’ collective, which became Paradise Press, and has published more than 40 books to date.”