Some Changes Happen Deep Down Inside Of

Believe In Yourself And You Can Achieve Greatness In Your Life.

I Was Sick All The Time, One Exotic Illness After Another, Which Lasted Throughout My Twenties. My Worst Decade. But From The Day The First Book Was Accepted, I Never Got Sick Again. Writing Changed My Life.

I Am Certainly A Fearful Person, But Fearless In My Writing. So There's That Other Person Inside.

I Hate First Drafts, And It Never Gets Easier. People Always Wonder What Kind Of Superhero Power They'd Like To Have. I Wanted The Ability For Someone To Just Open Up My Brain And Take Out The Entire First Draft And Lay It Down In Front Of Me So I Can Just Focus On The Second, Third And Fourth Drafts.

My Mother Was A Cracker Jack Typist. And She Would Come In And Sit At My House And Type The Final Type Script Before I Would Then Send It To The Publisher. And It Was Nice For Us.