It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.

I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.

I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I was very much caught up in the Cold War, and books and movies about espionage.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.

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.

…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.