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I am a huge Mel Brooks fan. And I do think that not seeing his canon of classics is a bit criminal or clueless.

My mother, at sixty, is one of those classic beauties: all neck and cheekbones, sharp lines that hide her wrinkles from a distance. She still gets whistles from construction workers from three stories up.

I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B' the summer after I turned 21.

Band I listen to most: The Ramones.

We're all amateur investigators. We scan bookshelves, we ogle trinkets left out in the open, we calculate the cost of furniture and study the photographs on display; sometimes we even check out the medicine cabinet.

To properly investigate a subject, we must investigate a subject's stuff.

There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres.

My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline. I just start writing and keep notes for what may come. It's an organic process that's usually pretty flexible.

Although I'm not an orphan and I can't lift a horse. I was, however, briefly famous for my feats of strength: at about age 11, I could competitively arm-wrestle a full-grown man.

I have a love/hate relationship with jogging.