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I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

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You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

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I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

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I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

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I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

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Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

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I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

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The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.

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My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me.

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I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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