Still, Something About Writing Made

I Didn't Dare Think Of The Future; The Past Was Still Happening.

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.

It's Amazing How Lies Grow. You Start With A Small One That Seems Easy To Cover, Then You Get Boxed In And Tell Another One. Then Another. People Believe You At First, Then They Act Upon Your Lies, And You Catch Yourself Wishing You'd Simply Told The Truth.

You Burn A Man's Pickup, And He's Ready For War.

I Don't Start A Novel Until I Have Lived With The Story For Awhile To The Point Of Actually Writing An Outline And After A Number Of Books I've Learned That The More Time I Spend On The Outline The Easier The Book Is To Write. And If I Cheat On The Outline I Get In Trouble With The Book.