I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious.

I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process.

I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows.

Jordan sounded like she had really lost the plot, and the only thing I can put it down to is hormones and wedding jitters.