I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.

Everybody knows, nobody's talking - from LIE --debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Press

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.

They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. "Longfellow and Hawthorne and Oliver Wendell Holmes used to read here. Let's go in." Brian nudged the girls until they obeyed.

It was a regular bookstore, less history-minded than Brian had expected. In fact, the local history shelves were quite mangeable. I'll buy one book, he thought. This will get me launched in actual reading. Out of the zillions of choices, I'll find one here.

Brian picked out Paul Revere and the World He Lived In. It was thick and somehow exciting, with its chapter headings and scholarly notes and bibliography.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.