It Took Me Nine Months To Write

I Always Wrote; My First Story Was Published In The Magazine The American Girl When I Was 11

Sometimes Life Seems So Painful It Hurts Even To Move My Arms.

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.

These Events Are Swirling Around Them. In The White Community, People Felt Like They Had No Control Over Their Neighborhoods, Their Destiny. In The Black Community, Centuries Of Government And Economic Forces Were Pushing On Them. I Went In With A Kind Of Arrogance, Maybe, That Came From Living In A Very Intellectual Family, And I Left Knowing That There Was A Lot About The Way People Lived That I Didn't Know About.

Don't Tell Me I Have Latent Sexism Or Racism That I Need To Confront. I Don't Believe That. I Think We Are So Burned By The Current Situation That We Want Somebody That It Isn't Possible To Have. We Want Someone Who Definitely Looks Like The Messiah.