It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.

Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.