Jeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling novelist. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Wolfe Award, and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 May 1950
CityGlen Ellyn, IL
Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.
Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.
Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.
You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book-it's usually because I'm trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place.
She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.
The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.