I hate patience. Slows everything down.

In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

Then I saw it, and it just grabbed me. That moment, that breath just before destiny, between innocence and power. He'll pull the sword free. You know it. And in that moment, the world changes. Camelot's born, Arthur's fate is sealed. He'll unite a people, be betrayed by a woman and a friend, and sire the man who'll kill him. In this moment, he's a boy. In the next he'll be a king.

I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You don’t have to do or be or have experienced, traveled to, but you have to imagine all of that, very well–and believe it completely during the bubble of the work.