Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.

The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together.

That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business.

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.