I'm writing from a "pirate ship." That's what my kids started calling the boat currently anchored in the lake behind our house. It appeared, as pirate ships do, in a storm. Despite the cloud cover and ...

Writing even just the first entry in a massive franchise can be a daunting task. It's hard to write any movie regardless of size, but bigger ones tend to come with an all new host of challenges -- ...

Andrew Watts wasn't yet a bestselling author on April 8, 2009. He had just returned from a patrol mission in his Seahawk helicopter and was settling in on the USS Halyburton, where he hoped to get ...