"I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me."

"Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott."

"I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive."

"I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present."

"I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I don't Twitter or anything."

"But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it."

"I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this."

"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat."