People don't care how smart woman is as long as she's charming and gay and pretty.

He lifted his gaze to the framed photograph of Tanya and him taken on their wedding day. God, she had been lovely. Her smile had come through her eyes straight from her heart. He had known unequivocally that she loved him. He believed to this day that she had died knowing that he loved her. How could she not know? He had dedicated his life to never letting her doubt it.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.