Q: Let me start with asking you to tell us a little bit about yourself.
A. I’ve been writing since 1980. I started out writing historical romances, but when I sold my first book, a contemporary romance, I switched to contemporary stories. My favorite to read and write is romantic suspense/mystery.

Q: As a child or teenager, did you ever dream of being an author?
A. No, I didn’t but as a child I used to make up stories, and when I played

Q: Let me start with asking you to tell us a little bit about yourself.
A. I write about mystery and suspense and I divide my time between London and California. Alfred Hitchcock has been a huge influence on my life and work. I’ve written three non-fiction books about the Master of Suspense and he inspired my latest novel The Haunting of Alice May. Hitchcock had the greatest of all things, a story to tell. In finding ideas to adapt to

Q: How did you get your start writing fiction and what genre do you predominantly write in?
A. I was journalism major in college, and I always loved to write. Honestly, it never occurred to me to try my hand at fiction until I turned forty. My husband gave me a laptop for my birthday that year. I’d had a story in my head for years, and I thought, with the new laptop, I’d write it down, mostly to get it