Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.

I'm not here to make a whole bunch of changes. The meat and potatoes of the program is still the same. It's basically an exaggeration of those boring fundamentals. We preach to the kids about taking care of the little things.

It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.

I grew up on genre. If it had a dragon on the cover, I was interested. But horror, especially, really gripped me in its bony fist.

I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to offload all of my stories. But it's also not as creatively fulfilling.

It's similar meat and potatoes but different seasoning. The new fund is much smaller ... and that provides me with the ability to be more agile and take advantage of special situations that Janus can't because it's too large.