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I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as soon as I'm done with this book, I'll move on to something else.

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm not sure where the story is going.

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.