When I was sixteen my mother gave me a copy of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters To A Young Poet.  I had already been strumming out poems and pained love songs since fourteen being precocious as I was at the time.  Not until then, however, when the young writer in the book was posed with the question, "Must you write" did I recognize my own love of writing and the immense value it had in my life.

Desire is my second novel, which I wrote between scenes on Law and Order.  Set in New Orleans, this story is about an unlikely friendship between a seven year old girl and a thirty year old Haitian woman brought together by circumstance.