On Leaving

What you want is to have everything work out the first time.

Life could be miraculously easy if every time you tried to make something happen the way you wanted it to happen it would actually just happen fucking brilliantly.

Could get tedious, but I doubt it.

And, news flash, seems that's not the way it happens.

For several years now many good people at Ballantine, Random House, and Del Rey have worked very hard to get my books into the hands of more people. They have, time and again, expressed ...