In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

Then his lips caress mine. It’s only a brush, but the warmth overheats every part of me. Leaning back, my elbow bumps into the power button on the dryer and the old appliance starts moving. Spinning. Spinning like my head. Like my heart.

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

Carla had realised there wasn’t just one destined adventure in life, there were thousands of them.

The light was luminescence and gloom, like the sky at midnight speckled with stars. All she could smell was the ocean...

I'm not really a current events guy, sadly.