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Recovering my strength. It sounds like I’ve been ill. I’m not entirely certain why but DANSE MACABRE was a hard book to write. I’m still searching for an easier [...]

It’s Halloween. This and Christmas have always been my two favorite holidays. Jon and I usually dress up. We decorate the house and yard. This year there are hardly any [...]

Anita and I need a break. A vacation. She’s been working violent crime for over six years, and I’ve been writing about it for over ten. It’s not the real thing [...]

Woke up at 6:30 A.M. I can bloody sleep in, and I woke up with the room still dark. Woke up enough that I knew it was useless to lie there. I left Jon asleep. I told him where [...]

Okay, I’ve recovered enough to say more about finishing the book. Let’s see . . . hmm. The book weighed in at twelve pounds, two ounces. The next heaviest book was a [...]

I could say other things, but right at this moment the only thing that seems to matter is . . . It is done. [...]

It’s not long past dawn here. My office is still dark. I turned on a light, and turned it right back off. No lights. The dawn darkness suits my mood. Yesterday was hard. It [...]

Six pages kept. Seven pages edited out. Seven really good pages edited out. They read well. They were powerful and intriguing, and they had nothing to do with the character in [...]

I use music so that when I play that particular piece, I know I’m working on this book. It gets me in the mind set, the groove, whatever. But there comes a point in any book [...]

This is the last scene. Not the last chapter, but the last scene. The last scene could take me another hundred pages, but I sure as hell hope not. It’s so complex, or [...]