A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.

I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.

One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.

The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.