Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy.

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

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

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

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.