A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse
...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.
She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay.
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.