I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

I have some good stories yet to tell.

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.