I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from inside out. What if one day these stories become something stronger, more real, than fairy tales?

If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious literature. It's still out there, and people are still interested. Even in the more secular way, books about angels are everywhere.

Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.

People don't actually think there is such a thing out there as angel research.