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Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

Some authors are quite happy - and have the time - to do it all themselves, which is great.

There is something special when creative people get together.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

It's only a very small percentage of creative thinking that ends up connecting with a wider audience, and even then, any success is quite unpredictable.

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

When I first have an idea, I'll spit-ball it with my husband: he's my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a year deadline from start to finish, so I'll piss about for three months and pretend to get started. Then there's four to six months of actual writing and, after that, submissions, edits, and eventually a finished product.