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Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

So far it's 43 books in 25 years.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait.