I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.