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.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

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.

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

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.