I am a few thousand words from finishing my 2015 book, which always makes me feel like I’ve achieved a bit of my destiny. I chose a quote about writing from one my favorite science fiction authors, Octavia Butler. She won numerous awards over her career and was one of the few African-American women writing in the genre when she started out in the mid-seventies. She died about nine years, and many of her fans miss her, including me. My personal favorite of hers: Kindred.