"People like to listen to me talk, and when I do they laugh. It took a while to figure out that they weren't laughing at me but enjoying the different way I spoke. I like all things Southern, including sweet tea, grits, and all things fried."
"I have to say that these characters really spoke to me. Because they felt so 'real' to me, I kept challenging myself to make them seem like real people to my readers."
"In Born of Persuasion, Julia becomes caught up the intrigue surrounding her mother's past and the mysterious event unfolding around her. Though she'd spent much of her life hoping to marry her childhood sweetheart circumstances force her to look elsewhere."
'Quilts and quilting, besides being an art and craft, are used in a variety of ways in these novels to convey love, family ties, hope for the future, remembrance of the past, and God's message of love for us. '