Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development

Larry's zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what his vampire bag looked like.

If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.