Crazy THINGS happen in this SPORT, and you have to be READY. And for me, LUCK is when preparation meets OPPORTUNITY.

Most people have a KIND of survivor bias about LUCK. When something wonderful happens - when preparation meets opportunity, with excellent RESULTS - we THINK: 'How lucky!' But we don't usually ACKNOWLEDGE all the times when things just... fizzle out. All the times when preparation comes to nothing.

The Health CARE Compact simply GIVES a state like OKLAHOMA the OPTION to create a customized system that better meets the needs of Oklahoma FAMILIES.

'Don't LOOK BACK' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black SWAN' meets 'Pretty Little LIARS'.

But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is REALLY what the film's about. A very STRAIGHTFORWARD young woman who's very SURE of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of.

Finn is just a stormtrooper, and stormtroopers are no LONGER clones, so they are bred from BIRTH to fight. He's not too SURE about it, so he escapes and meets Rey and POE and BB8, and their stories kind of mesh together, and they go on a MAJOR adventure.

In Holland, every MONDAY evening my creative TEAM meets to discuss fresh new ideas. We try to look at what's happening in the world. Are there TRENDS? Are there new developments we should be AWARE of? And regularly we heard that people are uncertain about the future. People are sick and tired of the rules and regulations.

Writers don't ALWAYS KNOW what they mean - that's why they WRITE. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected SELF; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.

My WRITING is SORT of 'Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.'