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

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.

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

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself and she had - her heart.

I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That doesn't mean I create perfect stories and perfect people, however. What this means is that my stories are resolved in a manner that leaves the reader with a feeling of hope and happy expectation . . . and wanting to reach for another one of my books.

Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.