I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.
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.
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

