NRR: Can you share with us how you
got started into writing?
The true start goes really far back,
when as a very young child-- early grammar school age-- I wrote my version of a
newspaper article to go with a picture I'd drawn of The Cat in the Hat.
My little creative project at the time was making up the front page of my own
newspaper. I don't recall the text of the so-called article, but the
inference was certainly clear from the headline, which proclaimed
"Dr. Suess Dies in Fire!" Even at that early age, I was
clearly headed toward darkness. Until early in the 1980s, writing always
took a backseat to wanting to be an artist. That changed when I loaned
one of my favorite horror books to my mother, who read it then told me,
"You could do this." I admit I thought she was crazy... but she
had planted the seed in my dead.
