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

I believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people.

It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.

Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.

I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.

So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me. And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.