I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day.

There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new direction, as long as I can get it back to where I need it to go.

And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.

I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.