Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.

People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin