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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and I do feel I succeeded.

I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

I'm always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read - I enjoy the surprise myself when others do this to me.