I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.

I think the Internet has made things a lot easier. Twitter and Facebook let you really connect to your readers effortlessly!

A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it's a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year-or any year.

I am an indifferent cook but I can make pie.

I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.

E-readers are changing the way we read, and the author is now required to get out there and be a kind of showman, an unlikely role for introspective people used to working in their pajamas!

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.