Abbi Glines

"All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women."

"Every villain needs her story told."

"Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years."

"I grew up in a small town in Alabama, and there wasn't much in the way of entertainment, so like our older siblings before us, we drove our pickup trucks out into the hayfield and lit a bonfire."

"I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012."