Spine Mingling: Author Interviews

"The overriding message is: our differences don’t matter because at the end of the day we’re all just human."

The novel is "an attempt to merge history and romance and my fascination with Dayton’s gypsy community."

"The best part of writing for me is when I first sit down at the computer with ideas swirling around in my head."

"My breakthrough came when I realized that I had to stop writing what I thought people might like, and start writing what I liked."

" If my muse fails to collaborate it is likely because she is bored with my attempts to override her suggestions."

'My greatest struggle early on was the persistent, naive misconstruction that great work sells itself.'

"I have to remind myself to enjoy the process, that writing can be fun. If it’s torture to write, it’s probably torture to read."

"Muses can be such tough divas to work with and I hate uncooperativeness!"

"I am fascinated by evil, by the psychopathology that leads people to harm others."

"I love my readers — meeting them, talking to them, reading their emails and their comments — because they are the ones riding shotgun in all my adventures."