I Cannot Imagine Life Without

I Am Incomplete Without My Work. I Am So Closely Bound To It, So Much Identified By It, That Without It I Think I Would Crumble Into Dust And Drift Away.

Growing Up, I Didn't Have A Lot Of Toys, And Personal Entertainment Depended On Individual Ingenuity And Imagination - Think Up A Story And Go Live It For An Afternoon.

Testing Of Self Is A Regular Part Of Our Own Lives, So It Seems Natural To Make It A Part Of The Lives Of My Characters, As Well, Albeit On A Much Different Level.

On The Other Hand, I Still Approach Each Book With The Same Basic Plan In Mind - To Put Some People Under Severe Stress And See How They Hold Up.

Fiction Writers Are Strange Beasts. They Are, Like All Writers, Observers First And Foremost. Everything That Happens To And Around Them Is Potential Material For A Story, And They Look At It That Way.