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

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

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

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

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

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say