I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy.
Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.
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.