Writing is a lonely profession.

As fiction writers, we are entertainers.

Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you’ve got it made.

It’s more in line with the warnings they put on plastic laundry covers: Don’t wrap this around your head: could be bad for you. I think Darwinism has to get a chance to work. The more we protect stupid people from themselves, the more we ensure the long, slow descent of the human race into idiocracy.

It is an old Russian saying that when something another person is doing bothers you, look to yourself.

I am always doing that which I cannot do in order to learn how to do it.” Pablo Picasso.

Content is King. Promotion is Queen.

All the girls wrote goals for themselves and the team. The goals were pretty simple. Each girl wanted to have fun and improve and contribute for the team. And they wanted to win the conference and state championship. We talk about improvement every day, and the rest takes care of itself.

I'm real happy with the way we've played. I'm just waiting for a good number on the road.

Once things got going, it worked so well. We created a new genre of romantic adventure.