I've loved stories since I was a kid and read all the Nancy Drew books I could get my hands on. Okay, I read a million True Story mags as well, under the covers with a flashlight. I read Gothic Romance when I was a young mother because that's what my neighbor read and she brought them to me by the dozens. They got me through teething and diaper rash. Then I turned to contemporary writers such as Anne Tyler, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith - I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Then, I discovered Jeanne Ray and Sophia Kinsella, and Elizabeth Berg among many others whose work I adore more...
