If You're Gonna Be Stupid

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 Was A Lawyer For 10 Years - A Short Time, But It Molded Me Into Who I Am. My Clients Were Little People Fighting Big Corporations, So It Was A Natural Thing To Not Only Represent The Little Guy But Also To Pull For Him - It's The American Way.

Reading Is By Far The Most Successful Pursuit Of Happiness.

I Don't Want To Force My Politics On My Readers.

The Two Mistakes That Come To Mind Are People Who Introduce A Flood Of Characters In The First Few Pages. Where The Reader Has To Stop And Get Out A Flow Chart And Has To Figure Out Who Is Who. And You Just Can't Do That - Introduce The First Four Generations Of A Character's Family In The First Chapter. You Can Introduce Four Or Five Characters At The Most In The First Chapter. Another Mistake Is To Use Big Words That Are Not Normally Used In Conversation To Try To Impress Folks With Your Vocabulary.