The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.
My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.
I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.