Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.
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Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.
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I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.
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I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
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My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
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People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.
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I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
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I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time.
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Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
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Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
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