Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.

I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.

I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.

I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.