He said he wrote the last 40 pages of “Win” in a day.
He takes about nine months to write a novel, with the ending often pouring out of him because he has imagined it for so long. My routine is to not have a routine.”Ĭoben starts each book with an idea, rather than a character, and by the time he sits down to write, he already has the ending in his head, a habit that he said allows him to plot out better surprises for the reader. Most writers have a set routine, a set place. “I would take them off to whatever school, and then I would find a coffee shop or a library or any weird place. “I’m not great at writing in the house, though I’m better now,” Coben said in an interview last month, nearing the one-year anniversary of the Covid-19 shutdowns in the United States. Coben stayed home, so he drove the kids to school, picked them up and took them wherever they needed to be. (When you Google “Victorian houses,” one of the related questions supplied by the algorithm is: “Why are Victorian houses so creepy?”) The house was maybe a little “on the nose” as a place for a mystery writer to live, he said, but he and his wife bought it anyway and have lived there ever since.īecause Armstrong-Coben is a pediatrician - today, she is also a senior associate dean for admissions at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University - before the pandemic, she had a daily commute. The gray and white home is accented with friendly touches of royal blue, but from the curb it still looks like it could be the set for a vintage horror movie. They married in 1988, and about a decade later moved to an old Victorian in Ridgewood. (“She was better than I was,” he said.) They celebrated the 39th anniversary of their first kiss on Feb.
Harlan Coben met his wife, Anne Armstrong-Coben, when they were starting power forwards on their respective teams at Amherst College.
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