But One Does Not Make

Generally My Typical Books Have Lots Of Twists And Turns A Big Surprise Ending And Then Usually Another Surprise At The End And Ideally, As In Garden Of Beasts, We Get To The Very End And We Find At The Last Few Pages That There's Yet Another Surprise.

For Me A Thriller Is A Very Carefully Structured Story.

In General, I Think, Less Is More, And That If A Reader Stops Reading Because A Book Is Too Icky Then I've Failed In My Obligation To The Readers.

I've Worked For Law Firms, I've Worked For Corporations, And For The Past 20 Years, I've Been Writing Working For Myself, And Believe Me It's A Lot Better. That's A Big Part Of The James Bond Panache, That You're Responsible, 100 Percent Responsible, For The Success Or Failure Of Your Mission In Life, Whatever It Is.

But One Does Not Make Living Writing Poetry Unless You're A Professor, And One Frankly Doesn't Get A Lot Of Girls As A Poet.