There is one piece of writing advice that never fails: When in doubt, begin with a sex scene. Then do some writing.
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I build the architecture, place the doors, decide who enters, and know roughly where everyone should end up. Then the characters discover the plan, form a union, and refuse to cooperate. I call the wreckage organic storytelling.
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Some of my books are set in Russia. I needed to come up with a lot of Russian names so I basically just plundered Dostoevsky.
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Egregious shouldn’t be seen in public with any qualifiers such as that two-timing gigolo “very.”
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I’m British, I live in France, and enjoy Russian literature… My natural habitat is camp tragedy.



