Nora Roberts is cool.

and the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins.

Zombies are the new vampire.

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.

There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising.