Q: Your Large Pyle Fan Club came up with a blaze orange bracelet for a fetish. A skin-diver watchband.

Does anybody wear one but you?

A: Yes.

Owen wears one.

Q: How many people are in the fan club?

A: I don't know. They lurk at my web site, The Daily By-Catch.

Q: Do any of them wear the bracelet?

A: I don't know.

I don't sell them.

I guess I could offer them as merchandise at my web site.

Q: What would you sell them for?

A: A dollar.

Q: They cost more than that.

A: From China? Wholesale?

Q: You don't buy from China do you?

A: Everything's from China.

Eagle feathers, turkey feathers, rhino horns--what difference does it make?

Q: The novel is about conflict.

A: Yes. I want to do a Hansel and Gretel stand-in but I don't want to go in the gingerbread house and dick around with the witch.

Q: I heard about a rock star who wanted to be a paperback writer but I didn't hear about a paperback writer who wanted to be a rock star.

A: Well, there you have it.

I want to be a paperback writer. Not a rock star.

But so far, I haven't been able to make that happen.

Q: It's happening. You just don't make a living at it. You have to take temporary jobs to hold body and soul together.

A: Yes and write books about that. In my spare time.