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When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to other, more specialized works and to the primary source material.

I often reread books I have written.

I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

I write the books to amuse myself.

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.