I always had these really crappy cars that were sort of falling apart. How did you celebrate after the bidding war?
You quit your full-time job in your 20s to give yourself three months to write a book and within that time got an offer. So when I set my mind to something I am able to put my attention on that.
I am very driven and I’m sort of your classic ADHD in that I’m either unbelievably and ridiculously disorganized and unfocused or I have the ability to hyperfocus. You have to sit down and just write and then the inspiration will come. I think the misnomer is that writing is a creative process all of the time and the truth is you can’t wait for inspiration to strike, not when you are on track to do two books a year. All of the time, all of the time! That’s one of the reasons I am enormously grateful for my editor because if I say, “I’ve got nothing,” she is the one saying, “That’s not an option.” We’ll sit there and she says, “Tell me about your life, what’s going on? What are you thinking about? What’s going on in your friends’ lives?” and we’ll come up with something. Having written 14 New York Times Best Selling novels and the recently released “Tempting Fate”, do you ever get nervous about maintaining such a long run of success and creativity?
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