I Was All Set To Blow Some

I Think The Worst And Most Insidious Procrastination For Me Is Research. I Will Be Looking For Some Bit Of Fact Or Figure To Include In The Novel, And Before I Know, I've Wasted An Entire Morning Delving Into That Subject Matter Without A Word Written.

Festina Lente. Make Haste Slowly.

With Two Books A Year, I Don't Have Time For Writer's Block.

Fiction Writing Was In My Blood From A Very Young Age, But I Never Considered Writing As A Real Career. I Thought You Had To Have Some Literary Pedigree To Be A Successful Author, The Son Of Hemingway Or Fitzgerald.

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.