I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with that.

I don't make fun of my characters. I just like to laugh and I think people are funny and the world is funny.

I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.

I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

You can hurt people's feelings if you laugh.

I've always been a teaser, even as a kid.

In general, I think every novel is a political novel, in that every novel is an argument about how the world works, who has power, who has a voice, what we should care about. But political novels can be boringly polemical if they end up being too black and white, too one dimensional, like war is bad, killing people is wrong.