I Know I'm Smarter Than

I Write In The Afternoon, From About 12 Until 6 Or 7. I Use An Upstairs Room As My Office. Once I Get Going I Keep At It, And It Usually Takes About Six Months From The First Blank Screen Until 'the End.

I Wanted Readers To Be Genuinely Unsure As To Whether She's Telling The Truth Or Lying. It Meant Making Her Partly Sympathetic, And Partly Unsympathetic, Which Wasn't Easy.

So, How To Stay Inside The World Of Entertainment Without Actually Getting Another Job? I Felt The Only Logical Answer Was To Become A Novelist. So I Wrote The First Book - Driven By Some Very Real Feelings Of Desperation - And It Worked.

The Way To Write A Thriller Is To Ask A Question At The Beginning, And Answer It At The End.

It's Always Sad If Anybody You Know Has A Personal Problem.