Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.

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Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

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For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

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When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

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I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

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You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

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In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

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In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

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Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

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The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

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