You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.