After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

I struggle with racism every day

A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.

I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better

The two mistakes that come to mind are people who introduce a flood of characters in the first few pages. Where the reader has to stop and get out a flow chart and has to figure out who is who. And you just can't do that - introduce the first four generations of a character's family in the first chapter. You can introduce four or five characters at the most in the first chapter. Another mistake is to use big words that are not normally used in conversation to try to impress folks with your vocabulary.

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.