I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.

There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.