I Don't Usually Eat Breakfast.

Stephen King Reached Out To Me Twenty-five Years Ago And Taught Me Some Valuable Lessons. In Return, I've Tried To Be Generous With My Time Over The Years With Young Writers. I've Given Them My Email And Said If You Need Someone To Talk To, I've Been Through It.

An Outline Is Crucial. It Saves So Much Time. When You Write Suspense, You Have To Know Where You're Going Because You Have To Drop Little Hints Along The Way. With The Outline, I Always Know Where The Story Is Going. So Before I Ever Write, I Prepare An Outline Of 40 Or 50 Pages.

Live Your Life The Way You Want. You'll Figure It Out.

I Did Get Tired Of Hearing That Criticism Years Ago. That Is Not A Compliment. Being Labeled A "beach Read" Is A Put-down. So, I Did Deliberately Set Out To Write A Book, Camino Island, That Would Be Very Entertaining And Compulsively Readable And We Published It On June 6 In Time For Summer Vacation, Hoping That People Would Buy It And Take It To The Beach.

I Struggle With Racism Every Day