I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.

You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.

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.

I can be around kids if I need to be.