I 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 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.
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I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough.
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If 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.
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Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man’s name gives you mastery over him.
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Horror 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.
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An 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.
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Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
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Like most authors, I’m a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access,
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It 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.
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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!
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I 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.
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Most 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.
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I 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.
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The 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.
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Hell, 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.
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I 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.
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