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

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.

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

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