I'd Always Wanted To Write Books Ever

Ironically, I Come From A Family Of Lawyers - My Dad, My Grandfather, And Now My Oldest Son. And Some Of My Very Best Friends Are Lawyers, Though They Don't Resemble The Ones That Appear In My Novels.

When I Was Writing Razor Girl, I Thought It Would Be Fun To Have A Redneck Tv Family That Was Really Just A Bunch Of Actors Who Had To Be Trained To Be Rednecks. That's Not So Farfetched, If You Know How Hollywood Works.

I Got Overwhelmed By The Magnitude Of The Celebrity Culture In America. My Background Is As A News Journalist, And Newsrooms In The Us Are Shrinking - Investigation Teams Are Being Terminated Or Shrunk On Newspapers All Around The Country. The One Aspect That's Expanded Is Coverage Of Celebrity Culture.

All Novels Are About Crime. You'd Be Hard Pressed To Find Any Novel That Does Not Have An Element Of Crime. I Don't See Myself As A Crime Novelist, But There Are Crimes In My Books. That's The Nature Of Storytelling, If You Want To Reflect The Real World.

Disney Is Just Disney. It's A Company That's Very Good At What It Does - Controlling And Promoting An Image - Until Something Happens That It Can't Control Or Cover Up.