Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.