If you're a smart guy, you should really try to find out what women are thinking. I mean, we are 51 percent of the population.

sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

If you're a smart guy, you should really try to find out what women are thinking. I mean, we are 51 percent of the population.

I was with a real jerk after the first heartbreak, and once I did the prerequisite eating an entire cake and singing "All By Myself" in the shower, I realized that people treat you badly when you let them, and that I had to respect myself and not let anyone else treat me that way again. If someone really loves you, they are your biggest champion, not your biggest detractor.

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, "She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her socks, the top of her head not quite reaching Jake's chest. What she lacked in height she made up for in girth. Jeffrey guessed she was at least a hundred pounds overweight. Standing side by side, the Valentines looked like the living embodiment of the number ten.