You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters interesting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.