My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

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.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

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.

I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.

Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today.

In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.