Angela Pneuman is the author of the recent novel Lay It on My Heart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and the story collection Home Remedies (Harcourt). She lives in Northern California and teaches in the Online Writers’ Studio at Stanford, where she was a Stegner Fellow.
Ann Packer discusses her most recent novel The Children's Crusade, artistic mothers, the writer and her “first principle,” and the fight to like your own characters.