Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.

You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.

The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

I don't think I'm cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch.

Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.

We are sitting on our honeymoon bed in the honeymoon suite. We are in a state of honeymoon, in our honey month. These words are so sweet: honey, moon. This bed is so big, we could live on it. We have been happily marooned -- honey marooned -- on this bed for days.