I'm not sure it makes sense to differentiate the books based on the caliber of writing, since certainly many books for adults are terrible and many books for young adults excellent. I do think it has to do with limiting yourself to an adolescent perspective, i.e. using only the perceptive and intellectual tools a…

I was generally speaking but I think my book falls under a different category. Certainly, it's more a family drama and a layered mystery than it is horror.

Awesome.

Thank you!

That was definitely the central structural feature that let me "crack" the narrative. I really wanted to give voice to a house—to render literal the old saying "if these walls can talk." I was also interested in the idea of memory palaces, of ideas and memories and associations getting mapped onto our physical spaces.

I think there are some parallels, but I think that ghosts occupy a primary—and primal—place among the roster of supernatural creatures because 1) they are a permutation of the soul, not the body and thus 2) can be seen not as a perversion of a human but in some cases as its high metaphysical form. They are not always…

You know, funnily enough this question has come up so often, and it's been really shocking to me. I think that for whatever reason I have been exposed to, befriended, known, or loved people with so many mental health problems—depression and anxiety and other mental disorders, and then of course all of the associated…

I really love ghost stories—especially gothic ghost stories like Turn of The Screw—but in some ways I was just as inspired by tales of family dysfunction (everything from We Have Always Lived in the Castle to This is Where I Leave You). I did want there to be an element of humorousness and levity to my ghosts—I wanted…