Here's my secret to a happy life: by hook or by crook, find some way to make your living doing something you love to do. Worked for me. I've always loved to read and I was always being told not to waste my time with my head in a book. So I found a way to make reading--"research, you know"--necessary to my line of work. Voila! Happiness! And there's more to it than that. Travel. Gotta go. Gotta experience those settings and find out what really goes on in those exotic locales. Feel that ambiance! Lean back and watch the sunset with that tall, cool drink in your hand. Research. Aaaah! ... The first publisher I sold to was Jove's Second Chance at Love. Silhouette Desire came next, then Dell Candlelight Ecstasy, Loveswept, Harlequin, Zebra, Harper. Lately I've been writing for Harlequin Romance as Raye Morgan. So many fun books! I've picked out some of the best of them which I'm rewriting into a series called Destiny Bay following a family called the Carringtons. I haven't been this excited for a long time--finding ways to adjust the characters into this new family, finding ties between them and emotions that just can't be denied--everything feels so new again. I hope you'll give them a try--and that you'll be happy you did!