If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.