They say that every book starts somewhere, with a burst of inspiration from some random corner of life. While this adage may not apply to some frighteningly organized writers, it certainly describes my approach to writing. I love the journey that books take, from that initial spark all the way through to "The End". The stories behind my stories appear on this site. Enjoy.

Man Trouble began with a 2001 story in the New York Post. The story was titled, "Is Mogul's Lover a Phantom?" The Mogul, in this case, was my husband (then fiance, who is a businessman and a regular fixture in the newspapers) and the Phantom was me... (Read more...)

Trust Me began with a house in Pacific Heights. I don't know who owns it, but to me it officially belongs to Henry Tremayne and his thirty-five pets. The real house isn't quite as grandly Gothic as the one I describe in Chapter Two, but it does sit "high on the highest hill around", and has a brooding, fortress-like air that makes me think that there must be gargoyles up there, somewhere... (Read more...)

A Hard-Hearted Man began as a school project... Every January, we had a month to do something called a Winter Term Project, which was basically an independent study of anything that you could get a professor to sign off on. In 1989, I decided that my project would be to write a category romance novel... (Read more...)