Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.

I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.

I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.

With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them.