American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.
I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.