Was it hard to create a series that’s essentially a cliffhanger and carry readership across genres?
It feels really good. I’ve always felt like customers go from book to book. You have no idea. You just don’t know. People who like Friends and Lovers might not like Cheaters. For all I know, when Cheaters hit the shelves, readers could have hated the book because it’s not based on monogamous relationships. And readers who like relationship novels might not like the cliffhangers. And my stuff I did before was what I do now. What people see is what I get published. I developed a screenplay called “Cappuccino.” I’ve always been into gritty stuff — Ed McBain-type work. When I started out, I did he-said-she-said stuff. There was death, drama, sirens in the background. I don’t know what the readers saw when I did Friends and Lovers. The characters were stories. As a writer you have to sit back and think it through. You don’t know how people will respond to what you write. I’m a really versatile writer, it wasn’t really hard — it was just a matter of traveling around to get my backdrops for t
