I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as five at a time.

Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?

And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives.

I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.