![]() ![]() My burglar turned out to have the highest morals of anyone in the novel. Back then that was radical today, it probably seems far more realistic! I just mashed them all together in a way no one had ever done before. Although, Washington had seen elements of that before: JFK with the mistress and the cover-ups, and Nixon with the burglars. ![]() The idea of a president, a mistress, a burglar and a cover-up seemed original back in the early 1990s. That’s just another way of saying it’s important to draw passion into your writing. It’s a long, hard slog. I started writing the novel in the wee hours of the night, and three long years later the last page was completed. It was a good thing that I was fascinated with the story I was trying to tell otherwise, I would not have hung in to finish it. ![]() I would see the Secret Service agents, both uniformed and suited, and occasionally I’d see the presidential motorcade, and my imagination began to spin. I was working as a lawyer near the White House. Absolute Power was not the first novel I ever started to write, but it was the first one I ever finished. ![]()
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