Festina Lente. Make Haste Slowly.

Guns, Grendels, Or Nuclear Bombs; Take Your Pick.

I Do Have An Office Where About 70 Percent Of My Writing Gets Done, But Sometimes It Does Get A Bit Stir-crazy To Be Cooped Up In There, So I'll Grab My Laptop And Write Somewhere Else: Another Room In The House, Out On The Patio, Or Even Heaven-forbid, A Trip To Starbucks. But I Also Write On The Road.

I Read Anything I Could Get My Hands On: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Thrillers. I Even Became Hooked On The Bantam Reprints Of The Old Pulp Novels From Thirties And Forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.

I've Mis-signed Many A Book Rollins Or Clemens. My Readers Quickly Become Aware. Booksellers Will Often Promote Me Under Both Names, And I Do Plug Both At Signings. Generally, The Fantasy Reader Has No Problem Going Into The Suspense Genre. It's Harder For The Typical Suspense Reader To Go The Other Direction.

Whenever I Start A Novel, I'm Always Looking For Two Things: A Bit Of Science That Makes Me Go 'what If?' And A Piece Of History That Ends In A Question Mark.