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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.

In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.