The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.

If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.

I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.

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

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

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.