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I Still Do A Weekly Opinion Column For The Miami Herald, And It's Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel. Rotten Fish.

I'm Sort Of Fascinated By America's Fascination With Rednecks, The Whole Duck Dynasty Thing. Being A White Guy From The South, I Find It Amazing That So Many Tv Viewers Are Enchanted By Beards, Bad Dentistry And Moonshine Accents.

That Dreadful Alligator Attack In Orlando Would Never Have Happened If Disney Had Put Up Real Warning Signs, Like Other Florida Resorts Do. But Wild Alligators Don't Fit The Disney Image, So They Were No Proper Warnings, And A Child Died For No Reason.

All Novels Are About Crime. You'd Be Hard Pressed To Find Any Novel That Does Not Have An Element Of Crime. I Don't See Myself As A Crime Novelist, But There Are Crimes In My Books. That's The Nature Of Storytelling, If You Want To Reflect The Real World.

I Think It's Always Good For The Author To Stay A Good Cattle Prod's Distance From The Actual Moviemaking.