I'm a Jersey Girl who keeps trying to leave.....and keeps coming back. After growing up in the New Jersey suburb of Norwood, I went to journalism school at the University of Wisconsin and then moved to New York, where I wrote short stories and waitressed at a long-defunct pub called Peggy Doyle's, the model for Declan McGlynn's bar in The Man I Should Have Married..
Yada yada yada (yes, I'm yadaing lots of sex, plus a few extremely unglamorous journalism jobs), I became shoe and lingerie editor of Glamour magazine. I had no idea what I was doing, but figured this was a move that would help me become a professional writer. During my six years at Glamour, I married Dick Satran, now an editor at Reuters, and had my first child, my daughter Rory, who lives in Paris and has recently finished her own first novel.
When Linda and I sold our first baby-naming book in 1987, I had enough money to leave Glamour and start freelancing. The flexibility of working at home made it possible for me to have two more children
