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OK, things are about to get a little crazy…

It’s 2 am on a Tuesday and I’m sequestered in my office, packing up for another book tour. My 18th, actually, which on its own seems pretty insane. There was a time in my life when the thought of reading 18 books might have seemed challenging, but over the past 20 years I’ve been blessed — or damned — to have stumbled into some wild stories that have led me down some truly intense rabbit holes.

This tour promises to be particularly surreal — because the topic is so amazingly HUGE, I can’t foresee what direction this tour is going to take. My new book, Woolly, is the true story of the genius Dr. George Church and his quest to revive the Woolly Mammoth through mind-blowing advances in genetic engineering...

This is a bad book. Somebody should make it into a movie. 

Twenty years ago, I had just published my first novel — a book called Threshold that none of you have ever heard of because it sold about 12 copies, most to people with my last name — and I’d just opened the New York Times to see my very first review. A full page, I might add — and there, under the headline, the very first line...