Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

How about this?" I said, because now it was the principle of the thing. "I'm sorry, jackass.

Focus, Amy. Just because he looked great in the saddle did not mean he wasn't an axe murderer.

My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction.

I was generally pro-bat, except when I was trekking through the dark trying not to think about the dire fate of every horror movie character stupid enough to go into the dark with a flashlight and check the fuses.

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story.