Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!
BENTLEY LITTLETwo years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!
BENTLEY LITTLEI write horror because I enjoy it. I’m endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don’t have much choice. This is the way my mind works.
BENTLEY LITTLEI always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.
BENTLEY LITTLEIf there’s any mystery to me at all, it’s probably due to the fact that I’m not online and don’t go to conventions–which means that I’m probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.
BENTLEY LITTLELike most authors, I’m a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access,
BENTLEY LITTLEHell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That’s one big horror story. And it’s the most popular book on the planet.
BENTLEY LITTLEI write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I’ll just keep writing them until they do sell–and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.
BENTLEY LITTLEIt helps readers identify with their problems. It also helps ground the supernatural events that follow in a recognizable reality and perhaps gives some of my wilder scenarios a little verisimilitude.
BENTLEY LITTLELife is short. Eternity is long.
BENTLEY LITTLEReal life … it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.
BENTLEY LITTLEMost people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my main characters ordinary, average guys.
BENTLEY LITTLEMurder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
BENTLEY LITTLEI would waste countless hours looking up things about myself, writing fake posts about how great I am and arguing with people who don’t like my work. It saves me a lot of time and frustration to just stay out of the loop.
BENTLEY LITTLEThere’s always been a need for horror fiction, though – ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature – and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away.
BENTLEY LITTLEAn enigma? That’s not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It’s good for my career.
BENTLEY LITTLEReal life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn’t always have time to do or say the right things.
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