I'm A Spy. It's Not Really... I

Victory Comes Only To Those Prepared To Make It, And Take It.

Surviving Is Much More Painful Than Death.

Suspense Is Achieved By Information Control: What You Know. What The Reader Knows. What The Characters Know.

I Think About The Characters I've Created And Then I Sit Down And Start Typing And See What They Will Do. There's A Lot Of Subconscious Thought That Goes On. It Amazes Me To Find Out, A Few Chapters Later, Why I Put Someone In A Certain Place When I Did. It's Spooky.

Fundamentally, I Think Of Myself As A Storyteller, Not A Writer.