Why Are All My Books Set in New Mexico?

Here's a thing you'll notice about my books: almost all have some connection to New Mexico.

• My first book, On Second Thought, was set in a fictional town called Los Alamitos that is 100% just based off of Grants and I don't know why I didn't call it Grants.

• Variant and Feedback, my first national books, were set somewhere in the Carson National Forest, up west of Taos and north of Espanola.

• Blackout and Dead Zone have characters from New Mexico (the opening scene is also set at Glen Canyon Dam, which I'll come back to in a second).

• Dark Energy's main character, Alice, had a grandma who lived on the Navajo reservation in scenic New Mexico.

• And on and on until my current work-in-progress which takes place on a different planet, but the main character is from Albuquerque.