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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little... unjust.

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.