I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

Belgium is a country with a split personality.

I was particularly drawn to Berlin because of its literal, concrete division. Two halves making a whole, or two entities that were altered doubles of each other? Twins that had been separated and kept in neighbouring houses and raised according to different sets of rules as a social experiment? It was irresistible as a metaphor for division in the mind, for a split personality.

I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.

I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears.

What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.