Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all.

There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.

I've made the decision to adhere to three general truths when it comes to my novels: There will be a love-story element to the story, the novel will be set in eastern North Carolina, and the characters will be likeable. Then, I make each novel unique through differences in voice, perspective, age and personalities of the characters, and of course, plot.

He smiled, thinking that for just an instant, it was easy to imagine they were still married, both of them on the same team, both of them still in love. Except, of course, that they weren't.

It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen

Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.

It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me.