First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling.

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.

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.

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

I love the way knitting brings people together.

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

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.