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I was surprised to learn how different Safe Haven Laws are from state to state. For example, in my home state of Iowa,a baby up to 14 days old may be dropped off at a hospital, medical facility, or emergency room while in Arizona a baby up to 3 days old may be dropped off at a hospital, with an EMS professional, at a fire station, a church, an…[Read more]

Hmmm, this is a hard one – I read so many books as a teen. I’d have to say as a teenager I was (and still am) a fan of Stephen King. I loved books that scared me.

I have so many favorite authors. I enjoy books written by Anita Shreve, Sandra Dallas, Ann Patchett, Picoult, and Elizabeth Berg. I also enjoy TC Boyle and Michael Cunningham. My all time favorite author is Willa Cather ~ I love her books!

I think about a book quite awhile before I actually start to write it. For my first two novels I did not create an outline of the plots. I knew where I wanted the books to attend, but how I got there evolved as I wrote the books.

The characters just seem to come to me, but once they do I keep a notebook where I keep notes about their particular characteristics, what they look like, their histories, likes and dislikes. As I write the book I keep adding to the notebook.