I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.
Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand.
I've always found ideas everywhere, but my favorite place is Nordstrom, because of their liberal return policies for those ideas that don't work out.
Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.
Bruises fade. Death is permanent.
Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.