At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

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

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

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

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