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Every single book is a challenge.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

I actually feel, when I get to about page 200, that it's going to be a book after all! It never gets easier - when you conquer one problem, another one rises up to take its place.