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My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.

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I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.

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I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.

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I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.

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I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.

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If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random.

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'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.

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The minimum I need is six months to allow for dithering, procrastination and the research. The research times varies from book to book; some are faster because they're based off resources I have at my disposal.

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When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 28th, 1977

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