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

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

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

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

Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.

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.