it is wonderful to be able to hear a book I didn’t have a chance to read. Listening to books on audio brings back early memories of listening to the radio. When I was a child, I was asthmatic and would lose as many as forty days a year from school. On those long days, I listened to radio dramas and felt fascinated by the people in them. I am very happy that my work is available on audio, giving people the choice of reading or hearing my books.”
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“New settings provide a springboard for fresh and different characters. Backgrounds for my novels include social trends, such as the personal ads phenomenon in
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“Being a storyteller. Isaac Bashevis Singer, who was a dedicated suspense reader, made a simple but profound observation on receiving the Mystery Writers of America award as Mystery Reader of the Year. He said that a writer must think of himself or herself primarily as a storyteller. Every book or story should figuratively begin with the words ‘once upon a time.’ It is true now as it was in the long-ago days of wandering minstrels, that when these words are uttered, the room becomes quiet, everyone draws closer to the fire, and the magic begins.”
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“Absolutely. I consider it a compliment when I’m told that someone stopped reading my book because he or she was alone in the house.”
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“No-never. Somebody once said, If you want to be happy for a year, win the lottery; if you want to be happy for a lifetime, love what you do. That’s the way it is for me-I love to spin yarns.”
