QUESTION: Is there a reason for the pen name? One you'd be willing to share, I suppose. As in, is it because you're actually a secret CIA agent and/or Russian spy, or merely because you don't ever want your mother knowing what you've written?
JTH: My mother and the rest of my family don't know that I have written the novels. Those people I know who aren't close friends see me as a failure by the American standards of success. Being a failure in such a way has been a continual lesson. It's helped me realize that we make quick judgments of others based on little real information. We assume so much – but don't know the secrets held within the heart.


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QUESTION: Is there a reason for the pen name? One you'd be willing to share, I suppose. As in, is it because you're actually a secret CIA agent...

QUESTION: Is there a reason for the pen name? One you'd be willing to share, I suppose. As in, is it because you're actually a secret CIA agent...

QUESTION: Is there a reason for the pen name? One you'd be willing to share, I suppose. As in, is it because you're actually a secret CIA agent...

QUESTION: Is there a reason for the pen name? One you'd be willing to share, I suppose. As in, is it because you're actually a secret CIA agent...