I Didn't Want Readers To Have To

On The Other Hand, I Still Approach Each Book With The Same Basic Plan In Mind - To Put Some People Under Severe Stress And See How They Hold Up.

I Remember One Winter, When I Was About Five Or Six, I Spent Three Days With Another Boy, Tracking A Bobcat That Had Been Sighted In Another County Fifty Miles Away, But Which I Was Sure Had Come Into Our Neighborhood.

For A Writer, Its Very Attractive To Stay In One World For A Time.

This Is For Writers Yet To Be Published Who Think The Uphill Climb Will Never End. Keep Believing. This Is Also For Published Writers Grown Jaded By The Process. Remember How Lucky You Are.

Anyway, Several Rewrites Later, Del Rey Books Did Publish My First Novel, And It Did Become The First Work Of Fiction On The New York Times Trade Paperback Bestseller List.