I think people underestimate the romance audience. It's everything from career women to high school girls to elderly women. I have male readers, too, especially for the Civil War books.

I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper.

I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?

I think, at the end of the day, you have to decide what you want. Do you want to be famous? Do you want to be rich? Do you want to have a career? Those are three very different things.

I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.

Without doubt, some of the happiest moments of my career have come in a Stoke shirt.