This incident proves how powerful an influx and influence of crime writing from other countries has become.

Crime is indiscriminate. It goes across the board, and it doesn't matter if you're the lieutenant governor or Joe Citizen.

This has not been a crime of hate.

I always wondered if I could write a novel, so I decided to try. I thought about writing a crime story, which is the kind of book I usually read, but it seemed too forbidding. But then I remembered the story I told my grandkids and started from there.

Writing a book is not a crime.

You can get constituencies that have a lot more voting and political power than their commercial influence. This can be a real problem for companies that are not involved in this process. They're ignoring the fact that decisions are being made that will affect the way e-commerce will be done.