Peale McDaniel has such a black thumb that she routinely buys zucchini. She finds sex scenes easier to write than action scenes. She has no higher praise for a book than to say, "That showed real science-fiction thinking." Her day job involves a lot of acronyms. She shows her love for her family by using a pseudonym when writing explicit alien sex. Her least favorite experience of 2016 was definitely the rabies shots.