by admin | Sep 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Music, Cities and Why Setting Is Never Just Background 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....
by admin | Sep 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Why Chase Had to Be Strong Enough Not to Be Threatened by CJ 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,...
by admin | Sep 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
What Happens When You Already Love Your Life 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...
by admin | Sep 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Why Conversation Matters in Attraction 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...
by admin | Sep 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Parts of Ourselves Nobody Sees 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...
by admin | Sep 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Why I Made CJ Forty-Five 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...
