Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.
I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.
Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.
Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.