I wrote the book Don't Die, My Love as I was going through radiation, so it certainly has an air of authenticity about it because I was there. I think all of my books took on kind of a deeper tone when the lady who wrote about cancer all of a sudden had cancer. I'm doing well. I went through it all and they said, 'You're fine."

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

I'll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.

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.

People can't help the way they look, just the way they act.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.