There's never a bad time to put earplugs in. They're the kind of thing you can reject as a bit lame, but somebody told me to do start wearing earplugs and it turned out to be great advice.
Ned BeaumanStatistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.
Ned BeaumanMystery, investigation, false leads, solution - we associate that structure with genre fiction, but it exists in our real lives, too. There's no reason why literary fiction shouldn't be able to acknowledge that and make it fresh.
Ned Beauman