As for getting the right publisher, many times, you don't end up with much choice in the matter.
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There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
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After Hurricane Katrina, my wife and I, like so many others, were going to help, but we wondered what the best way to help was, ... We went through Hurricane Floyd here, so we knew that a few years later there were people still living in trailers. That stuff is so terrible. So we decided to put our energy not into the post immediate stress, but rather the stress that sets in a week later when 'Oh my God. We have no house, no job, your school is gone.' Those kinds of things.
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As for writing the second novel, the pressure was immense, but hey, what's life without a little challenge I just sat down and forced myself to write and in the end, it sold as many copies as the first novel did.
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I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
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