Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of the truck and then head off to the side of a mountain or the bottom of a canyon. Hiking, fishing, hunting, rock-hounding: this is how my parents passed the time.

Benjamin Percy

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I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded ac... by Benjamin Percy

I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

playground outside just up

I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin wri... by Benjamin Percy

I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it.

year writing book thinking

It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.

day light work way

I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to offload all of my stories. But it's also not as creatively fulfilling.

write me i-can time

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginat... by Benjamin Percy

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.

will me potatoes meat

People like to pigeonhole. People like to label - not just books and movies, but everything in their life. If people want to call me 'literary horror,' I guess that's fine. What I'm trying to do is be both thrilling and thought-provoking.

movies me life people

I grew up on genre. If it had a dragon on the cover, I was interested. But horror, especially, really gripped me in its bony fist.

dragon up me horror