I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.

I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell--and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.

Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.

I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.

I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. This is the way my mind works.

An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.

If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to conventions--which means that I'm probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.