I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read 'The Dark Half,' which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read '11/22/63.'

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.

Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make a large container of espresso and just bang out a lot of words.

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.