You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.

Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when were hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.