I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.

Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead." "Ding dong, the witch is dead.

One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder