Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living

In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.

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

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

I try to weave a secret into each plot. It's the thread that holds the rest of the story fabric together. In fact, it's the reason for the story. I hint at the secret early on. Immediately I want the reader to get the feeling that something here isn't quite right. It helps maintain the suspense if a puzzling element is introduced in the first few pages of the book, but the answer isn't revealed until the final ones. Hopefully, readers want to know what the heck is really going on, and it's the desire to find out that keeps them turning pages.