Are horror writers creepy?
First off, you shouldn’t ask such rude and insensitive questions. Second, I have no idea whether or not I’m a horror writer. I certainly don’t feel like one and have never dressed completely in black, I avoid senseless gore, and I bear no Satanic tattoos. I don’t believe in ghosts, though I believe in an afterlife. I believe in the freedom of spirit and expression. I feel perfectly normal and I’m more or less at peace with the products of my imagination. Obviously I’m insane. I never set out to write in any particular category or to fit any publisher or market. I simply started writing. Some of my books will have “horror” on the spine. That doesn’t bother me. I’m neither proud nor ashamed of being associated with any particular genre. The labels really don’t matter. I call myself a “thriller writer” because it more easily encompasses the horror, suspense, and mystery fields in which I most often write. Now I write screenplays, children’s books, comic books, young adult, and metafiction
