How did you know you wanted to be a writer?

I’ve always loved to write! I started writing in elementary school and never really stopped. I wrote for our school journal, the school newspaper and was that persistent girl who would write to teen magazines and ask to be one of their teen reporters (one time it worked–a prom magazine asked me to do a piece for them!). I studied communications at Boston College and took all kinds of writing classes before settling on magazine work. I was an editor for ten years before I thought, “Hey, I wonder if I could write a book on all I’ve learned as an entertainment editor?” I’ve been writing novels ever since.