I Made Straight A's And Never Got

People Don't Care How Smart Woman Is As Long As She's Charming And Gay And Pretty.

If You Loved People, You Might Hurt Them, Dissapoint Them, Anger Them, But You Never, Ever, Dishonored Them.

I Came To Write After Several Mini Careers. I Did Live Theatre, Managed A Cosmetics Store And Was A Local Television Personality.

For Each Book, There's A Back Story Of Where The Idea Came From. Sometimes It's Derived From A Current Event Or Topic Of Discussion. Often It Begins With A Character. And Often, I Have No Idea What Sparked The Idea. It's Just There.

I Have No Personal Knowledge Of, Or Experience With, Paramilitary Hate Groups, Or Heart Transplantation, Or Escapees From Maximum Security Prisons, Or What It's Like To Be Profoundly Deaf. But I've Written About All These Topics, And The Books Became Bestsellers. I Figure That If Something Interests Me, There's A Reasonably Good Chance That It's Going To Interest The Reader, Too. As I Approach My Keyboard Each Day, I Remind Myself To Have A Good Time - As Good A Time As One Can Have Doing The Hardest Work There Is.