I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was pla….

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….

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

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

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

I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I t….

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

Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucia….

A story is built on characters and reasons..

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