Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

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

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.

My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.