I have been accused of acting out of partisan political motives.

In 1996, I received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California.

I received a Master's degree in 1991 in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University.

I was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina and earned my degree in Experimental Psychology in 1988.

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.

Leaving a book is hard - 'Secret Six' was a book that people cared about. Even years later, the digital sales are great; the trades and single issues are expensive and highly sought after. It was meaningful to a lot of readers, which is endlessly gratifying.

I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.