In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It’s a crapshoot.
BENTLEY LITTLEIn real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It’s a crapshoot.
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 LITTLEI think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough.
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. 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 LITTLEThere were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.
BENTLEY LITTLEI think the internet is a great marketing tool–but marketing is not my job. I’m a writer. My job is to write novels.
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 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 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 LITTLEI know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror.
BENTLEY LITTLEAs far as I’m concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that’s the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.
BENTLEY LITTLEThe Revelation was my master’s project, and after I finished it, I thought I’d send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer.
BENTLEY LITTLEHorror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can–plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.
BENTLEY LITTLEI write what I want to write. Period. I don’t write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don’t write suspense novels or thrillers.
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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