Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?

Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.

The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.