Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.