The pacing is important to me, but also just your method
with this.
And we've talked a little bit about it before
cause I'm like, does he work?
Like you're watching CSI with like the little strings all
over the wall and 9 million post-it notes and stuff.
Our, our mutual friend, Sonya, she painted this of you.
Can you see him guys?
Can, in-
In that window.
In that window?
And he's kind of hunched over with this big ominous sky
above him.
You see,
(applause)
and that's him hard at work.
How, how do you work?
Like, can you have music on
My routine is not to have a routine.
Gotcha.
So one time, in fact
I took an Uber into New York city
and I felt really guilty about spending the money.
So I started to write in the back
of the Uber and I wrote really well.
And for three weeks I took an Uber everywhere.
I went and finished
(Rachael laughs)
And finished the book writing inside of an Uber.
I love that though.
That's that's superstitious like, like baseball player
superstitious. It's really fun
Yeah. Got the same socks on for a while.
Whatever it is.
Very cool. As long
as we rinse the socks out occasionally, my friend.
Right? Don't worry.
These are new, but so whatever's working. I do
until it stops working
then I try finding something else.
So I have an office
but I don't use. I'll often go to coffee shops.
I worked for a while
at a stop and shop deli come, came home, smelling
like olive loaf every day, whatever it is, if I can
anything that helps me produce pages, I want to do
Do you look to do X number
of projects a year between what you film and what you write?
Or is that also kind of what you're feeling?
One book a year comes out, you know, the third Tuesday
just, you know, didn't come out long ago.
Third, Tuesday of, of every March been my way, for 15 years
probably now and the TV projects as they come, you know
whatever's working on working on always Netflix.
I'm always working
on something with them, but really the book is my-
How many in all now on Netflix, six, seven?
There's six right now
seventh will be coming very, very soon.
So the- Stay Close.
(applause)
Thank you
Stay Close is the latest though, right?
Stay Close. Stay Close came out-
It's been out since December
so you can binge watch the whole thing.
That's the way John and I do it.
We, we, we are like, like our, our eyes are
like a little bloodshot
covered with food because there's snack breaks.
Uh, So you must be well underway already then
for the next title.
Yeah. My Stay Close, the same group.
I did The Stranger, Safe, and Stay Close with.
We're gonna do another one.
Um So we're, we're working on that.
I have one coming from Netflix
Poland in another month or two.
Yeah. How many international films have you done?
Quite a few, right?
Yeah.
French and Polish.
French. Polish. Spanish.
Yeah.
So it's, you know, it's, it's really, it's, that's the fun
of Netflix is that, and you can all binge it right
at your own pace so you can watch it
and you can, by the way, people don't know this
you can watch it with subtitles or in the original language.
I like it.
Or in the English lang- you know, you can have a dub
you can do it any way you want to do it.
So they have all the options to have it.
Plus, I love that you're on set and you
if there's a change made
because of the country you're working in
or sometimes the gender of the character
even you are, you're hands on, you're doing that.
Right. Right.
My whole thing is like, I want you to take The Match
to bed and I want you to think it's like 10
or 11 o'clock at night and say, oh
I'm only gonna read for like 10 or 15 minutes.
Oh I can't. Yeah.
And next thing was four in the morning.
You hate me and you're cursing at me
Or, or...
But you're happy.
Yeah. The, the last, again, I only had this for a weekend
and it was done three o'clock in the morning.
I was awake and reading it.
And the night before I had stayed up
until 1:30, so I got like two hours to sleep because of you
(laughter)
Too bad.
That's my job.
Tough.
My job's to have you curse me in the morning.
That's my job.
Are you well on your way with the next title
too?
That's, Well, on the way, I don't know if I'm well
on the way it's, you know, I finish one, you do another
I sort of people say, what are you do?
Are you writing a book?
I'm like, yeah, I finish one.
And I write another that's--. I may take a break to think a
of an idea, but that's all I did.
Well this one has so much in it.
Yeah.
First of all, there are seven like teasers
and directions that my head went in at the end of the book.
And I'm like, well, I gotta know what happens here.
And I gotta know what happens there.
And there's, ugh, I got, I'm just, I'm going to spoil
everything. I have to
That's not a word
But I had like seven things where I was taking my head.
Is he gonna go in this direction?
The vile guy, like, who's that?
And where's that what's gonna happen there.
Um, But what I also loved about it, other than just
the big pacing to page turner, there's also scenes where
you're like, what?
And you have to turn back a few pages.
And there's all of these current events
in all of your books.
You always tie in something, you know, like a law and order
or something style thing where it's, it's so relevant
to today.
This is touches on cancel culture, um, the DNA sites,
the DNA websites that everybody's been doing
for so long
Bachelor kind of reality TV shows trolling, all of that.
All of it
And I- mystery helps
All in one package
and three different generations in love.
How else can I sell the book?
How?