I started writing at 75. Not because I had a plan, but because I was fed up with the books I was buying.

 

Too flowery. Too predictable. And vampires that all came from the same mold, immortal, dramatic, probably wearing a cape.

 

I opened a blank page and started writing. No outline, no plot notes, no list of characters. Two years later I had a novel. I didn't tell anyone I'd written it for another year. Then I told my wife. She read it cover to cover and loved it, and vampire fiction is not her genre.

 

That first book became the prequel in The Newmark Series.