Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.
The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.