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I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.