When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.

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

There have been years where I've had to take a real job and I wrote during slow times and lunches. I think never forgetting how lucky I am to be able to do something I love has really fueled me.

My first husband was a serial cheater.

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

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!

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.