FAQs

What’s the worst hairstyle you’ve ever had?

A mullet. The thing is, I loved that little mullet and kept it on top of my head for way too many years.

Have you ever been fired from a job?

Sort of.

Can you please elaborate?

I was a bad waitress. The peak of my badness arrived on a busy summer afternoon, when in refilling a drink dispenser, I sprayed a hose of dark liquid all over a group of women in business suits. The screaming was intense.

So they fired you?

I quit before that could happen.

What was it like working at Rolling Stone?

Very cool.

Any great celebrity stories?

I hung out with David Lee Roth at Boy George’s birthday party at the Palladium.

And?

I didn’t go home with him if that’s what you’re asking.

How did you meet your husband?

On a blind date set up by my ex-boyfriend. 

Isn’t that a little weird?

What’s weirder is that the three of us went out on that first date.

Do you base your fiction on your own life?

I mean, everybody does to some extent.

Well, your novel features a burned-out newspaper reporter chasing down a story that involves some paranormal elements. Do you believe that dead people can communicate with the living?

Um, kind of. Next question?

What’s your mantra?

Be kind to people. Niceness isn’t a vice.