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I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.

I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

There are so many books and movies I like; I never mention specific ones.

I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.

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

Fiction novels, that's my game.