If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.

When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.

Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.