After dozens of best-selling novels, Danielle Steel still has words to spare: She's starting a blog.
"It's like a letter to a friend, and fun to be able share something and say, 'Gee I did this,' " says Steel, 61, whose run of hits includes three this year alone: "Honor Thyself," "Rogue" and "A Good Woman."
"I've remained very remote and very private, partly because of all my kids (nine). They're bigger now and I would like to communicate with my readers in a more informal way, not just through the list of my accomplishments on my publisher's Web site.
In a recent interview from her home in San Francisco, Steel launched her blog Wednesday. She expects to post entries once a week, or more often "if I get excited about something."
An acknowledged technophobe who writes on a 1946 typewriter, Steel says her children dragged her into the computer age, inspiring her to take a closer look at what is written on the Internet.
She is not always impressed. "Some are very interesting, but some are so inane -- unknown people telling you what they do every day, which is even more boring than what I do every day."
But she will play nice on her blog.
"I want it to be friendly and positive," she says. "I have seen some of the blogs being highly critical about people and highly nasty. I don't like that in life; it's just not necessary. Life is hard enough without being sour on top of it."
And so far she's true to her word. On Friday she blogged about her "extremely silly sense of humor," which she says her children inherited:
April Fool('s Day) is a nightmare at our house. Every year, at least two of the unmarried ones call to tell me that they're pregnant, and three to say they're in jail. And I always fall for the first three calls until I realize what day it is.
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