She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.

I can be around kids if I need to be.

I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .

Well, in Angel of Hope, Amber ends up going in her sister's stead. The focus of that book and the next one coming out, Angel of Love, is how she finds her way out of her sister's shadow and into herself. That's really what those two novels are based on.

We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.