In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book that was similar to mine. Happily, that author thanked his agent. I looked up the agent on the web and found out that he not only represented authors writing books similar to mine, but I knew some of his clients! So, I sent in the manuscript, and they decided to represent it.

I'm always impressed that as we go through life most of the stuff we do doesn't matter that much, at least not ostensibly: you go to the grocery store, you work, you go to school. If any of that were omitted, most days, it wouldn't matter much.

If you neglect your blogs they don't take up much time.

What I find amazing is how sometimes ideas will just click, seemingly without effort.

Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.

I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.

These days I'm probably happiest when I see my two daughters loving one another.