Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.

Remember that I’m still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won’t let you out.

I am not very good at sticking to outlines, and I double back all the time to revisit scenes and change things.

I really love being a weirdo who writes a lot of different things for a lot of different ages. I have been considering doing a guide on my website so that a reader who liked one of my books could find the other books that he or she might like, because I know some of the books are really different from the rest.

I think there are a lot of really positive aspects to social media for novelists. Even though our work is pretty solitary, through Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and Instagram and blogging in general, we're better able to connect directly with readers.

I revise a lot while I'm drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise because I've changed massive things about the story. By the time I get to the end of a first draft, I've been through the beginning lots of times.