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I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.

I didn't make 'The New York Times' bestseller list until 'Charmed Thirds,' and then again for 'Fourth Comings.' It gave me a certain validation, and it certainly helps position me for future books, but it's not something I think about on a daily basis.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.