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.

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.

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes