People Talk-- They Sneer At Escapism. Well,

Have A Working Spouse, Because You Won't Earn A Living From Writing - Not At First, If Ever. My Wife Worked For Years To Support Us.

I Never Do A Full Outline, And If I Did, I Would Not Feel Bound To It, Because The View From Inside A Scene Can Be Different From The View Outside It. But Neither Do I Just Start Writing And See What Happens; I Am Far More Disciplined Than That.

Princess Rose Should Indeed Be A Tv Movie, Assuming Something Doesn't Go Wrong. I Don't Know How Good A Movie It Will Be, Because The Way Movie Folk Think Is Different From The Way Writers Think, And I Distrust What Isn't Done My Way. This Is What I Call A Healthy Paranoia.

As For Collaboration - I Have Done A Lot, 26 Books, And Found Publishers Increasingly Resistive To Them. It's Not That The Books Are Bad; Editors Won't Even Read Them.

At Present I Answer About 100 Letters A Month, And Read 300 Emails.