E-readers are changing the way we read, and the author is now required to get out there and be a kind of showman, an unlikely role for introspective people used to working in their pajamas!

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

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.

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.

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

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.