I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with really frightening books, like one on Jack the Ripper. She also had a poster of a shark in the closet which also terrified me at the time.

When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.

There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly what's going to happen.

My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies.

I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.

My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.

One day I want to write a full-on horror book.