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

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

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

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

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.

And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.