Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

I'm sort of fascinated by America's fascination with rednecks, the whole Duck Dynasty thing. Being a white guy from the South, I find it amazing that so many TV viewers are enchanted by beards, bad dentistry and moonshine accents.

Ironically, I come from a family of lawyers - my dad, my grandfather, and now my oldest son. And some of my very best friends are lawyers, though they don't resemble the ones that appear in my novels.