I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chainsaw thrown at you