I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown.
The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
I've been a huge fan of all things paranormal my whole life. For me, it was always a question of when, not if, I was going to write a paranormal series. I dipped my toe in the genre by incorporating a mystical curse into the 'MacCarrick Brothers Trilogy.'
My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.
I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.
Since I was a kid, I've had this morbid fascination with dark and scary subject matter.
What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films.