For the next ten days anyone who wants one can download a free copy of my last novel, The Reincarnationist. (Click here) But why is my book free? It's a question everyone has been asking me.

Well, it's not because I'm independently wealthy or because I think The...

Thriller novelists get asked -- berated, sometimes -- about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment. You know -- if we write about sex a lot, are we encouraging depravity? If we describe a murder, are we responsible for putting the idea in some random...

There have been quite a few articles online about chick lit and not chick lit. In fact, even here in the Huffington Post there have been three.

I'm not going to enter into the Chick Lit versus Literary debate. Everyone else is doing just fine at it without me. I...