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

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

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

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.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

There are many more ways to be attractive than to be beautiful.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.