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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

My first book was the book that changed my life.

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

I've always been a big fan of books.

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

I think my funny books are my favorites because I like to laugh so much.