What I do is really pretty hard, and I appreciate it when people take my effort with some degree of seriousness, as well as enjoying the stories. You do what you do as well as any, by the way. But being a good politician requires the ability to sit for a long time and listen to a lot of stupidity. I couldn't even do that very well. So, politics is not in my future.
Readers are the other half of the essential storytelling partnership.
What writers do is create the skeleton of a dream, which is dreamt in full by the readers. The reader's dream is just as creative as the writer's. Certain Prey is available in bookstores or at a special price from Barnes and Noble. Stop by John Sandford's web page. Thanks for coming again, John.