Learn then earn. How one guy crafted a best seller with only a computer, a bunch of dogs and coffee. The author of the smash hit Standing The Final Watch, aka the world's oldest teenager, reveals his rocket ride from obscurity to thriving career as a novelist and active membership in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The weather was sunny and warm, the coffee fresh, the dogs quiet for once and the reference book I needed for the day's work lay open to the appropriate page. Life was good. Nothing said I was about to do something I hadn't done in thirty years, namely, write fiction. (You thought I was going to say 'pass up a chocolate doughnut,' didn't you?) But that's what happened. (The career, not the doughnut.)