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I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.

One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

America puts killers on the cover of 'TIME' magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time.

I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.