A calm environment is for after I finish work.

I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live.

I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

I know I'm smarter than an armadillo