I can't sum up my books. They're all rather complicated. Sometimes I think they're too complicated. But that's the way I am. When I start to write a book, my head gets full of all kinds of detail.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail.
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.
I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.
With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.
When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.
I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.
When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.
There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.