Rick Kleffel:agony Column

"I wrote with the door open, and he'd see me..."

"I'm highly visual as a writer."

"And that meant three major characters didn't make the cut."

The Heavens Rise

"It's not really bestiality, it's just sleeping with a very hairy individual."

The Wolves of Midwinter

Robert Littlell, 'A Nasty Piece of Work' ; Gene Kerrigan, 'Dark Times in the City' ; Robert Stone, 'Death of the Black-Haired Girl'

"Tibet, in those days, was truly unknown..."

The Abominable

"It was the most amazingly eventful and magical summer..."

One Summer: America, 1927

"There isn't a general agreement about what normal and good is."

MaddAddam

Stephen King, 'Doctor Sleep' ; Ann Rice, 'The Wolves of Midwinter' ; Michael Gruber, 'The Return'

"...it felt like some kind of kinship..."

Burial Rites

"I'm just there to take it down..."

Enon

"...I did all sorts of things to get the voiceiness..."

Traveling Sprinkler