I’ve been a movie junkie ever since I was a kid. Every Friday, Mom would pick me up from school and we’d go to see a double feature. Movies have been a part of my fantasy life every bit as much as novels. So several years ago, when I started reading snippets about Bollywood movies [...]

Well, okay, maybe not a license to kill. How about a passport? What does that have to do with writing? The passport is for a research trip to India, a setting I’m using in a new novel I’m developing, and I’ve never been to India. Whenever I am forced to deal with the government, I [...]

In doing a Q&A for a writer’s group, I was asked what changes I experienced in publishing since I sold my first book in 1983. Oh, let me count the ways… I wrote the first three novels I sold (and a few I didn’t sell) on an electric typewriter. One of those novels was with [...]

One of the things I had to learn to do as a career writer was to take vacations—not necessarily going to some exotic place, but to take time off from writing. A vacation for my mind. For years–my whole writing career until lately–I was obsessed with getting to the next story or to rewrite something [...]