I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

...there's no such thing as an underwear elf. Even when it goes missing, it's somewhere in the room. So make sure you find it." -- DARK OF NIGHT by Suzanne Brockmann

I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's even better than the first, and a third that's better than the second, and on and on.

He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.

-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?

No doubt about it, Lawrence Decker was the reason God had invented nakedness.

Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.