Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.
Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.
We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.