I Write Fiction. I Make

Cause When There's Life There's Still Hope

Remember To Write For Yourself, Not For A Market And Give Yourself Time To Develop Your Own Style, Your Own Voice. It Takes A Lifetime. Enjoy It!

Characters Are The Key To A Good Book. It Took Me Several Novels To Comprehend That.

Read A Lot - Poems, Prose, Stories, Newspapers, Anything. Read Books And Poems That You Think You Will Like And Some That You Think Might Not Be For You. You Might Be Surprised.

Our Great Problem, Is That Children Now Know Whatever They Want To Know - At The Press Of A Button They Can Discover All Horrors Of The Adult World. They Know Very Early On That The World Is Sometimes A Very Dark, Difficult And Complex Place, And The Literature They Read Must Reflect That. Otherwise We're Just Entertaining Them To Pass The Time.