Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

Their son Matt DeAndrea is also a writer. She has also written a number of murder mysteries under her real name Orania Papazoglou featuring the romance author Patience McKenna. Her novel Not a Creature Was Stirring also received an Edgar nomination this time for "Best Paperback Original"; it was also nominated for the 1991 Anthony Award in the same category.