There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've been really lucky to know her. She's a great reader and teacher as well as an astonishingly good writer.

I write nothing but contemporary romances.

I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

I write about true-life type things.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.