When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.
This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.
What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.
Success comes in cans, not cannots.
But what is life if you don't live it?
The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.
