Here's a video of Dorothy talking about her life, just before Race of Scorpions (Book 3 of her House of Niccoló series) was published in 1990.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfemT4mwTgw

The Rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors who’ve influenced you and will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Consider yourself tagged if you want to be tagged.

( My fifteen, roughly in the order in which I came across them )