A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.

I have to admit that many of the relationships I write about are destructive, but that's the yin to the yang of a good relationship. Maybe you have to experience the terrible ones to appreciate the good unions!

Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.

I am an indifferent cook but I can make pie.