Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.