I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

I was terrified of funerals.

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

I still have this deep-down fear that if I go poking into the bushes I might find a dead body.

They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.

Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.