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...react to critics who say romance novels are trashy? -Rachel Malaguit, Manila I think it is narrow-minded for anyone to say this entire genre is trash or fluff. In every genre you'll find trash. Not every romance [novel] published is wonderful-it would be very naive for me to say so. Some may edge over to trashy, but it really is in the eye of the individual reader...
...think filmmakers are so fond of your work? It's visual. I grew up at the movies. I went to movies before I wrote. My first editor Bill Thompson used to laugh and say "Steve King has a movie projector in his head." Filmmakers react to that. They see, because they're visual creatures themselves, and they say, "Gee, I'd love to do that." In some cases they run their heads into the noose, because it's easier to make it up in your mind than it is on the screen...
...this going to kill us,” Weisman said. “In my book, we get beyond this concern because we’re all dead by page one.” Once it gets beyond the end of mankind, the book examines how the earth would react without the daily pressure of 6.6 billion humans. After extensive travel and research, Weisman concluded that nature eventually would rehabilitate. “No matter how much we have ravaged the landscape, no matter how contaminated, nature finds a way to make the world its own once again...
...react when you found out a letter with anthrax was addressed to you in 2001? -Luke Metherell, Sunshine Beach, Australia Here was somebody trying to kill me by sending me an anthrax-laced letter, and maddeningly, it was intercepted by my secretary, who got cutaneous anthrax. It was a very disquieting time...
...relief efforts stand in stark contrast to how Mexico dealt with disasters during its 71 years of one-party rule that ended in 2000. Authorities were slow to react to a catastrophic earthquake in 1985, leaving much of the rescue efforts to the public while officials tried to underplay the casualties. The new culture of disaster response has centered around active civil protection agencies, preplanned shelters in every community and a lively media, giving minute-by-minute updates on the catastrophes...