I tend to be a little - just a little - more heavy-handed with the sex scenes, and Tamara (Thorne) tends slightly more toward humor. But the joy of it is, when we write together, it draws out the best in both of us.

I've always thought the best way to promote a book is to write a damned good one. If it's good enough, people will talk about it and do a large part of the marketing for you.

After a while, the people around you come to understand that you're serious about your writing, and then they treat it seriously, as well. But if you treat it like a hobby, so will everyone else.

While formula is good, there’s such a thing as too much of it. When technical rules are followed too closely, it shows, and if given the choice between a perfectly-coiffed, rule-abiding novel, and a damned good book with a some serious heart and soul, I’ll take the latter every time.

I think I had two choices: I could either work a nine-to-five job and just get by until I retired, or I could write. There isn’t anything else I’m passionate about enough to put this much work into.

I've loved Anne Rice's books all my life and being able to talk with her was surreal. It was the only time I've ever been truly starstruck.

I always feel like I should have really interesting answers to questions about my writing process -and one day I’ll make something up involving goat bones and virgin’s blood – but the truth is, I get up, make coffee, I sit down, and I start writing.

There are two reasons I'm a writer. The first is that I have stories inside me. The second is that I'm in love with words and am obsessed with finding better ways of saying things.

Finishing the next book is what I live for – it’s my drug of choice, and it’s what compels me to keep chasing the dream.

The subconscious mind is amazingly efficient – it wants to work your story out – and while I’ve never experienced it myself, my guess is that writer’s block is the result of the conscious mind having gotten too involved in the process.