"It’s just the way I’ve always communicated. Even now, when I need to tell something really important to my husband, I’ll send him an email, or I’ll send him a text...I was never much of a talker, so [writing] just made sense.”

— Marni Mann

"I can overthink anything—like, how to make mashed potatoes. I can overthink that until my kids are starving at midnight. But I just try to remember the joy and the reasons why I write.

There’s not a cut and dried way. There’s not a formula. There’s not a template or an outline. You need to always remember to be genuine to who you are and to forge your own trail.”

— Adriana Locke

"I had no friends, so I told my husband I was going to make my own. And he’s like, 'You’re gonna what?' I was like, 'I’m gonna write a book.'

…Six week later I was finished!”

— Aly Martinez

"That feeling—it's like a drug. You know? You get to this scene...or you make discoveries about your characters that you didn't know were there. It's just this kind of euphoria that I don't get from anything else.”

— Jessica Park

"As far as a process, mine’s a little like chaos. I have certain hours I write, but I never write in order, I don't plot, I can’t—I’m kind of like a nightmare writer, I guess.”

— Stevie J. Cole

"The ones I wrote about were my serious, long-term boyfriends. I had plenty of duds in between that were not book worthy.”

— BB Easton

"I got Microsoft Word, I got unemployed, I got a computer, I didn't know what to do with it—so I started writing books.”

— C.D. Reiss

"It was an adjustment for me because I was not a collaborator...but seven books, man—you kind of get used to it.”

— JA Huss

"That was how the whole story started. The four of us were at the [New Kids on the Block] concert…and the four of us, because we’re such lunatics when we’re together, plotted out that entire book as a total joke!”

— Corinne Michaels

"I think I can speak for most agents when I say this; we really just want a really good book—a really well-written, well-told, well-plotted story.”

— Kimberly Brower