I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

Football ruled my life for years, morning, noon and night.

I am huge water sports fan. I love to jet ski, speedboat, water ski. So I love to get away to somewhere sunny and just get on the water and have some fun with some friends.

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.