What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

Be what you are; it is better that way. --Dolph

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.