When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?
An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
I started writing stories in my spare time.
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.
