When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

Seeing those orange bags, mile after mile after mile is thrilling because you're part of something big. And it's clean. It's really clean. You can see the difference. It's sort of miraculous.

It's big and good and wonderful. People honk and wave. It's exciting to be out there. We get a lot of positive reinforcement from the people out there.