The handwritten pages make for fun giveaways. If someone reviews one of my books online, like on Amazon or Goodreads, they can notify me through my web site, and I'll send them an original page. They can see my creative process in all its scribbly glory.

Brian Pinkerton

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Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.

Brian Pinkerton
sheets computer ink

I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled across this kind of mix of materials. I wanted to create the feeling of a detective going through a box of clues.

Brian Pinkerton
email detectives feelings

I came up with an idea to turn the cliché inside out: instead of humans threatened by zombies, what if a sympathetic zombie was threatened by humans?

Brian Pinkerton
zombie what-if ideas

I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.

Brian Pinkerton
machines imagination needs

I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.

Brian Pinkerton
stuff-i-like should-have water

I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life.

Brian Pinkerton
jobs drama thinking

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

Brian Pinkerton
stories ordinary people

The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses.

Brian Pinkerton
amplify acting self

I'm going to slow down a little bit, but I won't stop creating. I can't!

Brian Pinkerton
slow-down creating littles