I'm Getting A Wider Circle Of Fans

I Wanted Things. Whatever It Cost And Whatever It Took, I Would Do It. And That's It.

My Mother And I Will Continue On Some Level That I Havent Determined Yet. I Think My Mothers A Great Character, And I Have To Say That Giving My Mother To The World Has To Be The Biggest Thrill Of My Writing Career.

It's All Sex For Me. Politics Is Sex. Race Is Sex. It's The Novel. It's The Novel!

When I Look At Perfidia, I Think, "that's A Pulitzer Prize Winner. That's A National Book Award Winner." It's Not Going To Get It. It's Going To Be Shelved In Crime And It's Just The Way It Is. I've Done Something That No One Else Has Ever Done; I've Started Out As A Mystery Writer, A Police Writer, And A Crime Writer, And I Became Something Entirely Different.

Every One Of My Books Is Written From The Viewpoint Of Cops, With The Exception Of My Book Killer On The Road, Which Is Written From The Viewpoint Of A Serial Killer.