In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.