website|I’d always thought of writing as a battle, but instead it was like flying through space|Lao.” It was written back in 1935, by a man named Charles Finney, and is about a magical circus that comes to a small town in Arizona during the Depression|The series was at the heart of the Swedish detective genre in the 1960s and ’70s, which eventually led to Henning Mankell’s Wallander books, and, of course, Stieg Larsson|I really don’t like to think about it|This time around it’s a whole new ballgame; it’s going to be good|I found that stories have a mind of their own; it’s like they exist somewhere, fully formed, and all you have to do as a writer is listen really hard and copy them down|Dennis Etchison is a writer I admire– he’s won both British and World Fantasy Awards– and it seemed like a sign, so I went to the class, and it was like he flipped a switch, and I started writing}