Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.

She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

I consider my greatest strength my complete and utter faith in a loving God. Strong family values are also important and I do not hesitate to write them into my books. My reader mail tells me this is something that readers especially like about my books.

I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.

Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.