I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.

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

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

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

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

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.

I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.