Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.