My goal for next year is 1,000 kids in the program. I've been told that I'm crazy to want that many, but I really think we'll get it next year.

These kids watch football on Sundays and they see the United Way commercials. One of the kids told me he thought it was cool that they were getting to help out like the NFL players in the United Way commercials.

They get to see that as athletes, people in the community look up to them.

This has been an unprecedented and titanic fight. Only Mahony had the audacity to do something like this.

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.