Our family journey on the Bookshop podcast

Award-winning YA author Stacey Horan interviewed me on her popular literary podcast! We talk about books, writing, and parenting.

“In his book A Family, Maybe, Lane details the challenges—legal, political, and personal—that he and his partner Jonathan faced trying to adopt their two foster children through the Los Angeles County child welfare system.

Along that journey, Lane amassed a vast collection of paperwork and court orders, hundreds of emails, and a diary detailing his family’s everyday experiences and struggles. Four years passed before Lane was able to open the boxes and look at the documents he’d collected, and it took him eight years to produce a draft of the story.

Writing it was a painful process but a rewarding one. A Family, Maybe is a story about building a family and discovering what it means to be a father. But ultimately, it is a story about love.

In this episode, I’ll chat with Lane about his writing journey, how his and Jonathan’s relationship and their racial and ethnic backgrounds affected the adoption process, and the support they received from unexpected places.“

-Stacey Horan, The Bookshop at the End of the Internet