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

Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

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

Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

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.

I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved one fighting an illness, to losing a job, being betrayed by somebody you trust, all parts of the human condition. No one is exempt from those things.

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.