The Outline Is 95 Percent

So I Work Hard To Present The Human Side Of My Characters While Not Neglecting The Plot.

We Have Years To Converse With Someone, To Blurt And Rant, To Explain Our Desires And Anger And Regrets - And Oh How We Squander Those Moments.

Ideally, I Like To Integrate The Human Issues Into The Suspense Story Itself.

In Suspense Novels Even Subplots About Relationships Have To Have Conflict.

She Believed Not In Divine Salvation But In The Proposition That We Poor Mortals Are Fully Capable Of Saving Ourselves, If Conditions And Inclinations Are Right, And The Evidence Of This Potential Is Found In The Smallest Of Gestures, Like The Uncertain Resting Of A Large Hand On A Bony Shoulder.