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Some of my most enjoyable moments as a writer have come while conjuring a meet cute.
Mary Kay Andrews
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I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.
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My protagonists have problems that a new pair of shoes won't solve. Retail therapy is not a bad thing, but it's not going to fix their lives.
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Southern women, especially upper-middle-class women, care deeply about appearances and what other people think.
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I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
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I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research.
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I want characters I can live for in a setting that makes me feel like I'm there.
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My ideal beach house has bookshelves full of paperbacks that can tolerate a little sand, a DVD library that includes some Disney classics for the little ones, board games, and jigsaw puzzles. At least one big flatscreen television is a must.
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Between planning family vacations and running away for novel-writing retreats, I've spent much of my adult life questing for the perfect beach escape, renting cottages all along the Florida Gulf and up and down the Atlantic Coast - as far north as Nags Head, as far south as Key West.
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Slipcovers are great because they can be laundered after those all-too-frequent sippy cup and red wine incidents.
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I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.
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Although I married a sports-loving jock, I myself am not only not athletic, I am acutely, completely uncoordinated.
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