People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might

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

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

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.

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might

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