If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.