One of the great places to find character names is a cemetery. I’m talking about older cemeteries where you’re less likely to stir any recent memories. Here again I mix and match first and last names to avoid stepping on the memory of a real person.

Reporters often get their information from one another’s stories and if those stories have mistakes, those mistakes are spread farther.

I’ve come to learn that ideas are attracted to conversations the way butterflies are attracted to flowers. So I’m an unabashed eavesdropper.

My novel started with a turkey hunt gone good.