Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.

Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'

As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.

When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted.

Everyone says marriage is hard work, but they don't tell you that actually being yourself and respecting yourself is hard work.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

I love having my husband at home. Especially when I have to leave the country so he can take care of our children.