There's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say.

My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.

She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name.

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!