I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.

Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm writing at the moment.

I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel.

Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.

I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.