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I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels.

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.

Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.