Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.

In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

I'm off to sit on a cliff.

The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.