My Books and Characters

I see stories before I write them. Usually not entire stories. Scenes. A room. Somebody walking through a door. The view behind them. A hand moving. The distance between two people while they're talking. Sometimes I know exactly what they're wearing before I have any...

CJ created a problem for me. Once I knew who she was, I had to find a man who could stand beside her without either diminishing her or disappearing himself. That is harder than it sounds. She is forty-five, exceptionally successful, wealthy, intelligent and accustomed...

I knew very early that I didn't want CJ to be secretly unhappy. It would have been easy. Give her the successful career, the beautiful apartment, the money and the independence, then reveal that underneath all of it she goes home every night desperately lonely and...

I've never been particularly interested in writing attraction where two people have nothing to say to each other. They can be spectacularly good-looking. They can have sex that damages the furniture. But eventually they have to get dressed, and then what? That part...

People make decisions about other people very quickly. Sometimes before a word has been spoken. The suit says one thing. Tattoos say another. The apartment, the car, the accent, the job title, the way somebody orders wine, whether they know what fork to pick up first...

When I started writing CJ, her age was never something I debated. She was forty-five because that was the woman I could see. She had already lived. She had built a career, made money, travelled, accumulated friendships and opinions and habits she had no particular...