Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

I'm afraid of the general things that everyone is afraid of: a bump in the night that could be a cat or Death dragging his sickle across the room; losing my health; becoming homeless, never meeting George Clooney.

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.