One of the life-defining compliments came to me in junior high school, when I participated in the weight-lifting club afterschool. At less than 100 lbs and less than 5 feet tall (I was a late bloomer,) I was one of the smallest kids there. But I what I lacked in physical stature, I made of for in determination. One day, I was trying to bench close to 100 lbs…
I had a great time chatting with Pia Lindstrom on Book Radio about my book DARKROOM.
We delved a great deal into the book, my career, my personal history. Hope you’ll give it a listen!
Ms. Lindstrom is a wonderful host who made the interview lively and entertaining (for me, especially.)
Thrillerfest 2012 will remain in my memory one of the best experiences I’ve had, not only in terms of the people I met, such as Sandra Brown, Lee Child, David Morrell, Steve Berry, Douglas Preston, Catherine Coulter, Ted Dekker, and countless others, but because of the camaraderie we all shared as aviaries of a like plume. Of course, there were the fan boy moments where I found myself in awe of meeting several #1 NY Times bestselling authors who agreed to interviews on my internet radio show DIAGLOGUE: Between the Lines, but some of best memories were spending time with facebook friends whom I met for the first time in person, such as Aaron Patterson, Jeff Ayers, Alan Jacobson, and an whole entourage of their friends as well.
I just returned from Thrillerfest, a convention sponsored by the International Thriller Writers organization in which I got to meet some of the top bestselling authors in the industry. I also got to talk with aspiring writers as well as colleagues who are traditionally published, independently published, and hybrid published (both indie and traditional, like […]
“Be the person your dog thinks you are.”
Have you ever heard that phrase before? We laugh sometimes at how naïve, and utterly devoted our quadruped friends can be while at the same, we time nod in unspoken acknowledgement when we see characters like Dug in the movie “UP.” Dug is best known for his line: “I have just met you, and I love you.”
My dog is probably like most in the same way, but upon careful observation of his interation with me and my family, I learned a few things from him that made me wonder—What if people could be like this to each other?
Here are the four things I learned: