Sister Krissie the Impeccably Demure

So here I am, among the best of friends, ready to blather on about life, love and the exquisite joy and torture of writing for a living.

I've been writing romance since the dawn of time -- my first book, a gothic, came out in 1974 when I was twenty-five years old. Since then I've written more gothics, regencies, series romances, historical romances, thrillers, romantic adventure, novellas, and always romantic suspense. I've won three RITA awards, the Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award, numerous Romantic Times awards, been on the USA Today bestseller list countless times (but never the New York Times, alas). I've made a thousand mistakes in my long career, and I'm happy to confess to them all.

I love my family, sewing, Japanese Rock, cooking, music, Vermont, my cats, my dog, quilting, Alan Rickman, androgynous Japanese rock stars, Clive Owen, Russell Crowe (who'd eat one of those afore-mentioned androgynous Japanese rock stars for breakfast), Hiyao Miyazaki, fabric, old movies, nuns, absurd clothing, food (unfortunately), my writing friends, and all sorts of interesting things. Life is a banquet, as Auntie Mame once said, and for me, starving to death was never an option.

And I have a longterm love-hate relationship with writing. Mostly it's glorious, except when it's not, and I whine and scream and yell when it's going badly. Chances are you'll find me entertaining, annoying, or endearing. Or maybe all three.

The one thing I'll never be is boring.