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

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

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

Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your gut -- and your heart -- in the opening scenes and never lets go.

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say