I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single

In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books

Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues

Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.