I remember reading something by a musician that said the reason most musicians tended to make huge demands when they became big(have a dish of only green M&Ms in the dressing room, etc) was that, until then, they were treated like crap.

I believe it, and it's really too bad, because that's one surefire way to create bitchy, bitchy, entitled people.

Since some of my favorite romance/supense writers (Rachal Caine, Tami Hoag, Suzanne Brackmann) originally wrote under the haliqueen label.... I can't quite say the same. But I do think she was much better when it was all subtext and hints. And it someone for Harlequin wrote Harry Potter.... *mind boggles* it would be like the Anita Blake books.