Of all of the aspects of writing I’ve encountered as a reader and a writer, I think the question “Where do you get your ideas?” is one of the most common questions about writing, since everything grows out of that seed: plot, action, characters, setting – the entire world. However, of equal interest to me is how an idea develops; stories and characters take on lives of their own, and the final result might be something quite different to what the author originally intended. My first – and as yet unpublished – novel took that kind of left turn. I’d never written anything resembling a book, so when I decided to try it, I opted for a form with which I was familiar: a mystery of the Agatha Christie type. That idea lasted about two chapters, and the characters and plot took the bit in their teeth, and I simply held on. Lovers’ Knot, published this past Spring by Running Press, however, was a bit more straightforward. It didn’t veer off into unknown territory, but grew slowly and broadly from a simple beginning. I had been asked to write a short story for a friend’s anthology, as story with two…

April 2010 On Sale: April 1, 2010 Featuring: Will Piper 384 pages ISBN: 0061721808 EAN: 9780061721809 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Thriller Arcane Buy at Amazon.com Book Of Souls by Glenn Cooper In this thrilling sequel to Secret of the Seventh Son, FBI agent Will Piper hunts for an ancient book that has had a profound effect on history-and holds a truth that mankind may not be prepared to hear. Book of Souls picks up the action a year after the conclusion of Secret of the Seventh Son. Will Piper’s life has been forever changed by the astonishing secret he’s discovered hidden at the government’s clandestine installation deep under the Nevada desert. His uneasy retirement from the FBI is interrupted when a long-missing book surfaces at an auction house in London. A group of ex-Area 51 employees, who call themselves the 2027 Club, recruits Will to assist them in obtaining the book and helping them solve a mystery that will affect the fate of all mankind. As deadly government operatives try stop him, Will discovers the ancient missing volume has had a profound effect on history. Remarkably, a newly-found puzzle sonnet by a young William Shakespeare seems…