If You Think Your Life Sucks, It

Sometimes A Book Is Better Than It Ever Had A Right To Be Because Of The History The Reader Brings To The Reading And Because Of The Methods Educators Use To Bring A Particular Story Alive.

I Can't Think Of A Subject That Is Taboo For Me, Unless It's One I Simply Don't Know Anything About.

The Premise Of 'deadline' Forced Me To Go Against My Own Grain With A Character Determined To Find All That Is Valuable In That Time. I Believe This Is A Story About Redemption; How, Even With The Best Intentions, It's Sometimes Found And Sometimes Not.

You Put Yourself Out There In The Truest Way You Can And Hope Others Do The Same. You'll Connect Or You Won't, But You Did What You Could.

My First Book, 'running Loose', Was Censored Back In 1983 Or '84. Every Book I've Written Since Has Been Censored Somewhere.