I read a book that he co-wrote with John DeChancie, called Crooked House. It was good. DeChancie by the way was the author I was teamed up with when I took the Writer's Digest Novel Writing Course. The most excited day of my life was when I got a response from him, after sending in my plot outline for the novel I was writing. He wrote back, and said that he reread it several times and was "stunned every time". He also said that he had "never encountered anything quite like it". And the part I was most excited about was when he wrote that it was "probably the most inventive piece of plotting and story construction I've ever seen, bar none." I reread that letter whenever I get too down on my writting abilities. I finished the first draft of the novel, but the rewritting has pretty much killed it. I just can't get into starting over at the beginning on something that took me several years to write. If I ever get anything published anywhere though, DeChancie will get a copy sent to him, in thanks for his help and encouragment.
