Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand.

Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

While the romance genre has expanded so much over the years, in an odd way it's also narrowed, with too many people trying to stick stories into tight, well-defined marketing niches. It can, admittedly, be a tricky balancing act, but I believe the key is to be able to step back and take a long hard look at what you do well, what makes your work different from other writers, what feels the most natural to you when you're writing.

Any guy afraid to die was a guy who was afraid to live.