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For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase.

I wouldn't consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces.

What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films.

Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.

I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.

I was a latecomer to romance, although I did read gothics. My father used to work for the 'Fort Worth Star-Telegram,' and their book reviewer, author Leonard Sanders, would pass on the gothics for my dad to give to me since Leonard didn't review gothics. I gobbled up books by Mary Stewart, Madeleine Brent, Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney.

Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.

I do have a regular childhood.