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Of the books you've written, which ones are your favorites? 

I'm one of those writers who tend to write regardless of circumstances.  If there's a hurricane, a flood, a death, an illness, I write through the experience.  It's how I cope.  I can point to each one of my books and tell you if I was undergoing some trauma at the time.  The book itself has become a catharsis, and consequently, I feel a special bond to it.  Those books are Tapestry, My Beloved, After the Kiss.  But that's not to say they're my favorites.  I don't have one.  Each book is important because it's a step.  I hope that readers will begin with Tapestry and end with my most current book and see me growing as a writer. 

Why do you write such "dark" books?

The sound you hear is me grinding my teeth.  I tend to write books about people who are flawed.  Maybe it's because I was always the nerd in the corner in school. Perfect heroes and cute little blond heroines give me hives.  But my books always have a happy ending.  Perhaps because I'm an optimist myself.  "Dark" is relative, just as humor is. Hopefully, my characters always have a deep core of beliefs, but they do not always act in perfect ways.  In other words, they're like real people.  

Why do you write Romance?

I write romance because it most closely identifies with how I feel about life, love, and the pursuit of happiness.  In one of the darkest periods of my life, reading helped me survive.  It transported me to a world of fascinating people who, despite all their problems, were guaranteed a happy ending.  Frankly, I never knew I wrote romance until my first three books were sold.  I just wrote stories I would have liked to read. 

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