Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged world, and many of our classmates were quick to remind us of that fact. Taunting the "boat kids" was practically a varsity sport.

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury.