This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.

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

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

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