I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.

I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.

I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!

It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.