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"Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can."
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"At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO."
"I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form."
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"I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page."
"I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since."
"Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so."
"My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits."
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