I am always consulted about covers, and give feedback, but I am also aware that what causes a customer to pick a book up off a shelf in the UK is very different from what causes a customer to pick a book up in the US.

Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.

Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.