Back to Question Time, where you can ask me anything! Within reason! I may have a somewhat rare printed copy of the short story A CAT WAS INVOLVED, the Chet and Bernie origin story available in digital and audio, to give away sometime in the process.

And now over to Phoenix Giordano: “When you sit to write a book, do you have the entire plot already downloaded into your brain? Or at least the outline? Or does it come to you as you’re writing it?”
Great question! In the beginning of my career – this was before electricity – I’d plot an A-Z outline. It took weeks. The problem was that at C or D some character would blurt something unexpected that was way better than what I’d had in mind but involved scraping the outline. So now I’m at the stage where I’m flying the plane and building it at the same time. I start fairly fast, slow down in the middle, and speed up at about the two thirds point – where, believe it or not, some of the work goes on in my sleep. Freebies! Like last night (I’m working on the C&B that follows CAT ON A HOT TIN WOOF – preorders please and thank you) the whole wedding cake ransom sequence came to my sleeping mind.