“I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.”

“The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.”