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I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined it, why write the damn book?

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I work in the mornings almost exclusively.

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'Night They Missed the Horror Show' is my signature story. It changed my life, so it remains my favorite.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs taught me pace and gave me a sense of action and adventure.

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Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.

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Robert Bloch taught me about mixing horror and humor.

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I was well under the spell of the old Gold Medal Crime novels when I wrote 'Savage Season,' and I wanted to write a modern version of that. I had tried the same thing with 'Cold in July,' and I wanted to give it another go.

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I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they were usually the goofy neighbor next door, you know? And I just thought, 'Well, I know a lot of gay people, and they're just as varied as the heterosexual people I know.'

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I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be at its best in America, they claimed, and then eased into the '60s.

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I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 28th, 1951

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