I Don't Spend The Day Writing. I'll

Most Gothics Are Overplotted Novels Whose Success Or Failure Hinges On The Author's Ability To Make You Believe In The Characters And Partake Of The Mood.

If I Cannot Horrify, I'll Go For The Gross Out. I'm Not Proud.

Things Were Going Very Fast Now. Too Fast To Suit Him. Fantasy And Reality Had Merged.

I Believe The First Draft Of A Book — Even A Long One — Should Take No More Than Three Months…any Longer And — For Me, At Least — The Story Begins To Take On An Odd Foreign Feel, Like A Dispatch From The Romanian Department Of Public Affairs, Or Something Broadcast On High-band Shortwave Duiring A Period Of Severe Sunspot Activity.

Time Is A Face On The Water.