Deception By An Omission Of The Truth

Beginning Writers Are Often Advised To 'write What You Know,' And Since I Knew About Quilters - Their Quirks, Their Inside Jokes, Their Disputes And Their Generosity, Their Quarrels And Their Kindnesses - The Lives Of Quilters Became A Natural Subject For Me. Quilting Wove Together My Two Themes As Completely And Effortlessly As I Could Have Hoped.

People Need Stories...we Use Stories To Teach, To Learn, To Make Sense Of The World Around Us. As Long As We Need Stories, We Will Need Books.

Anna, Falling In Love With You Was Like Coming Home To A Place I Didn't Realize I'd Been Missing All My Life. You're The Only Person I've Ever Known Who Accepts Me For Who I Am, Right In This Moment, Faults And All, And Isn't Waiting For Me To Become Someone Else.

In My Contemporary Stories, I Write About Today's Quilters, Inventive Techniques They Use, And How Technology Has Influenced Their Art. Novels Set In The Past Let Me Have Fun Researching Patterns That Were Popular And Fabrics And Tools Available To Quilters Through History.

I Wanted To Write About Women And Their Work, And About Valuing The Work We, As Women, Choose To Do. Too Many Women I Knew Disparaged Their Work. Many Working Mothers Thought They Ought To Be Home With Their Children Instead, So They Carried Around Too Much Guilt To Enjoy Much Job Satisfaction.