We May All Deserve Hell, But Some

There Are So Many Stories To Tell In The Worlds Of Science Fiction, The Worlds Of Fantasy And Horror That To Confine Yourself To Even Doing Historical Revisionist Fiction, Whatever You Want To Call It - Mash-ups, Gimmick Lit, Absurdist Fiction - I Don't Know If I Want To Do That Anymore.

If You're Stephen King And You Have A Massive Body Of Huge-selling Well-respected Work, You Can Pivot And Do Whatever You Want. I Don't Have That Body Of Work, I Don't Have That Audience That's Comfortable With Me Enough Yet To Follow My Bliss With Me.

I Always Say That The Characters In Jane Austen's Original Books Are Rather Like Zombies Because They Live In This Bubble Of Immense Wealth And Privilege And No Matter What's Going On Around Them They Have A Singular Purpose To Maintain Their Rank And To Impress Others.

I've Always Enjoyed Reading History, Particularly Presidential Biographies.

I Feel Like The Luckiest Guy On The Planet. But, I Literally Work All Day, Every Day, Seven Days A Week, 365 Days A Year, And That's Not An Exaggeration.