Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal childhood. What's useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness.

The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.

Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet.

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.

I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we're being told a story. Just a little wrong footed.

Most of My Friends are two-thirds water

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.