Dee: You said to me that some critics didn't know how to deal with Logic, because they were prepared for a second Eden were you prepared for that criticism?
Olympia: In some ways, yes. In others, no. I knew that they had probably pigeon-holed me based on Eden, and some part of me felt they would expect another one...written as EDEN was written, but I cant do what others expect of me. I can only do what the characters want. Eden has her own birth certificate. She is Logic's sister, but one likes ice cream, another likes to dream.
Dee: You also said that you like flipping the script. I haven't received my copy of Logic yet, so tell me what script did you flip?
Olympia: not flipping the script, but writing as the characters write. Those characters are different for each book. They are different in their lives and dreams and hopes and sadnesses. I can't pin them down to one particular writing style or medium. Each has to breathe as they are.
Dee: What's Logic about?
Olympia: This is always a hard question. Logic has her own story, her own way of setting her life up. She is an innocent child, a lamb, born into the world where lambs are called to be slaughtered. Interesting about the lamb; it will go to whoever calls it without question. It will go to its own death without question. I've never heard of an animal with such faith.
Dee: How do you unwind?
Olympia: The beauty of thought. I don't think I've ever truly unwound. I don't have a method. It's better that way. One of the most spiritual moments I have is when I go to church and Ms. Viola cries aloud and I rub her back and shoulders as she cries out to God. She is so unembarrassed, so innocent and beautiful, so free.
Dee: What do you do to open your soul up for all the voices? Or do these haunting people find you regardless?
Olympia: They find me, regardless of whether I am sitting or standing or lying down.
Dee: If so, what do you do to get sleep?
Olympia: Nothing. I used to hardly ever sleep, but I met a friend who talked to me about a structured life, that word I don't like "structure" and I am only now beginning to fall asleep at night. I don't know how. I
