In the beginning, we needed a single antagonist to bring the sisters’ stories together, so we decided on an Evil Aunt. Eileen called her “Aunt Rellie,” as in “relative,” and I thought that was a hoot, and it stuck, and she was Rellie for most of a year. We sent the book out for beta […]

Eileen said, “Mine’s the oldest, the one who mothers them all,” and Krissie said, “I’ll take the middle sister, the peacemaker,” and left me with the youngest sister, the bratty rebel, so I said, “Okay, I’ll write against type,” and they threw things at me in e-mail.
So basically, I just started to write and there […]

You know, I’m really a sweetheart. I don’t like confrontation, arguments, disagreements. I much prefer a Zen-like calm, hard as it is to find. Just like Lizzie Fortune, I like to find a peaceful common ground with the minimum of fuss. So I took the character that the others didn’t want.
Dee, […]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll admit it again. Dee began as a one-line joke at a conference. But then, some of my favorite characters began as one line of some kind. Dee’s line was that she was a shape-shifter who couldn’t have sex, because every time she tried, she turned into the guy’s mother.
Honestly, […]