I Was Editor Of My High School

I've Often Said That There's No Such Thing As Writer's Block; The Problem Is Idea Block. When I Find Myself Frozen-whether I'm Working On A Brief Passage In A Novel Or Brainstorming About An Entire Book-it's Usually Because I'm Trying To Shoehorn An Idea Into The Passage Or Story Where It Has No Place.

We Have Years To Converse With Someone, To Blurt And Rant, To Explain Our Desires And Anger And Regrets - And Oh How We Squander Those Moments.

I Also Try Very Hard To Create Characters - Both Heroes And Villains - With Psychological Depth.

Certainly Going Back To Sherlock Holmes We Have A Tradition Of Forensic Science Featured In Detective Stories.

Generally My Typical Books Have Lots Of Twists And Turns A Big Surprise Ending And Then Usually Another Surprise At The End And Ideally, As In Garden Of Beasts, We Get To The Very End And We Find At The Last Few Pages That There's Yet Another Surprise.