Ice cream or frozen yogurt? Ice cream

Coke or Pepsi? Diet Coke

Coffee or tea? Coffee!

Facebook or Twitter? Facebook

Flats or heels? I like heels better because I'm girly, but I wear flats more because I'm lazy.

Kindle or Nook? Kindle

Call or text message? Call - I like to hear people laugh. LOL is so.... blech.

Favorite authors? Augusten Burroughs, Micheal Connelly, Richard North Patterson, Jodi Piccoult, Anita Shreve, Toni Morrison... I could go on.

iPhone or BlackBerry? iPhone

Favorite song? My all time favorite song is Blackbird by The Beatles (although the Glee version is beautiful).

Celebrity crush? Bradley Cooper (swoon!)

Movie you saw recently? The Grinch

Favorite television show right now? Modern Family

Favorite snack food? Cookies

Your most overused word or phrase? "You know" - I say it constantly in conversation.

Your biggest pet peeve? Disingenuity

Favorite activity when you’re not writing? Reading and a long time ago, cooking. But writing has negated all free time.

Favorite books? Rebecca, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Pilot's Wife, She's Come Undone

Your hidden talent? I can hear a song and figure it out on the piano. Not perfectly, but for the most part the melody and chords fall in the right place. I always wish I had developed it.

Comment heard most often from your readers? "I couldn't put it down!"

Thanks, Kate!

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