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I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer, I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me.