I liken all of the parts of a novel to baking a cake. Yes, we may have all the ingredients—the flour, the sugar, the vanilla, the milk, the butter, but now it’s time to learn how to put them all together so the cake is not only a cake, but it’s a cake that you want to eat until you can’t eat anymore. Until you must unbutton those jeans of yours and you’re on the brink of diabetes. Until writing great fiction becomes an addiction you can only satisfy by getting more of it

I have a lot of books. A lot of books. I've wondered that about other writers: Is your home library where books go to die?

In the ever-evolving world of literature and publishing, standing out as an author is both a challenge and a necessity.