Give my brilliant friend a job! An excellent writer and an even better person. You want them on your team!

I love that Hallmark is doing these historical films, I love that they're telling these wonderful stories from so many different perspectives, and I love that they're getting experts like Dr Vanessa Riley to make these films really shine! Watch tonight, everyone!

show where you create i work in the garbage, as my rom-coms and romance novels have been called "trashy" by so many

Doctor: What do you do for a living? Me: Oh, I write books and screenplays. Doctor: So...are you...funny? Me: I hope so, doc. I really hope so.

Somebody at Universal Pictures or @wbpictures make this movie.

*romance writer inner monologue* this better not awaken anything in me

Getting jury duty while on deadline for a new book. Orleans Parish, I don't have time to develop a tender friendship with a bunch of kooky strangers while guiding James Marsden through an emotionally fraught stage of his career right now!

Like I'm always saying: Produce more rom-coms and hire me to write them.

Some of my biggest flops have been the things I am most proud of. Commercial and critical success is great! But we have to root for ourselves even when no one is clapping, too.

"Why do they go downstairs to investigate the noise?" "Why don't they know they'll fall in love if they fake date for her ex-boyfriend's wedding?" "Why doesn't he know his best friend is the secret bad guy?" Characters don't know what genre of movie they're in, hope this helps

I have a little list in my notes app called, "Everything Good." Whenever something makes me smile or reminds me why life is worth living, I jot it down. When I feel low, I go back, read that list, go through the memories, and live to enjoy another day.

a reminder