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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.

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

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

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

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

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.