My life as a woman

American screenwriter Billy Mernit has a secret.

It just slipped out. I didn't mean to say it, but...

I met a fellow writer at the Rose Cafe today. Laptop open, she was working on her first novel, and I was telling her about my novel, and she asked me if it was my first. And before I could stop myself, I told her -- a total stranger, about a secret identity I'd been keeping under wraps for years.

I was Leigh Anne Williams: a woman who published 20 romance novels.