The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.