What will they say about our age right now?

It'll probably be something we don't...

It was an age of pessimism, that's for sure.

And it's been going on a long time.

In fact, I think the root of it is the bomb.

I think that's in the back of everybody's head.

Even if they don't think about it openly, it's there.

What have you learned about writing a plot twist?

So tell us a little bit about that experience and then also how you were balancing writing at the same time.

I had just been married the week before I graduated from college, and my wife and I moved to this little town in the Pennsylvania mountains.

It was a coal mining town, but of course the coal had run out many years before, but generations still stay.

And these mountains were peppered with little towns of 500 or 600 that all had been coal mining towns in the day.

And this government program was for somebody to come in to work out of the regular school district, but to take very small classes of underprivileged children with real promise intellectually.

And that sounded like a good deal to me.

It sounded like something I could have used when I was growing up.

Tell us a little bit about why you wanted to move over to Amazon and what that relationship has given you.