I'm Not Afraid Of Death.

My Mother Still Calls Me Jim And That Is About It. Everyone Else Calls Me Lee. My Wife Calls Me Whatever.

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.

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.

I Had A Teacher Once, Grade School Somewhere. Philippines, I Think, Because She Always Wore A Big White Hat. So It Was Somewhere Hot. I Was Always Twice The Size Of The Other Kids, And She Used To Say To Me: Count To Ten Before You Get Mad, Reacher. And I've Counted Way Past Ten On This One. Way Past.

I Felt Alienated By The Experience And Decided To Stay Away From Corporate Employment.