Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

