I've always been more interested in what happens after the bad thing has happened - the fallout of the bad thing, when people are already damaged. I'm less interested in seeing people when they're fine and following their journey to becoming damaged.

Chelsea Cain

Categorized in : Always Bad People Journey

Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.

Chelsea Cain

care world moving

You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant.

Chelsea Cain

pregnant drinking hands

Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.

Chelsea Cain

retarded complicated facts

There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.

Chelsea Cain

diets killing people

Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.

Chelsea Cain

ugly attention people

Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...

Chelsea Cain

serial-killer running ideas

Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.

Chelsea Cain

thinking

Lovely chatting with you, darling, but I've got to run. Face it, you're always more content when you're chasing me than when you have me locked up. I think we're going to have a lot of fun.

Chelsea Cain

running fun thinking

I love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into the woods and are never seen again. And still we tug on our fleece and skip off into the wilderness, not a care in the world.

Chelsea Cain

natural-beauty walk beauty love

No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don't feel like I'm on vacation unless I'm dehydrated and covered with sunscreen.

Chelsea Cain

feel place vacation matter

There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that.

Chelsea Cain

winter tree beauty people

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

Chelsea Cain

library reading time school

There's not a lot of arc in an actual psychopath.

Chelsea Cain

arc actual lot

I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process.

Chelsea Cain

me friends work fun

Often we don't even know what we think ourselves about people in our lives.

Chelsea Cain

about think know people

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

Chelsea Cain

detective books kid myself

You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone a pet. I'm giving you responsibility, I'm giving you a thing that you now have to take care of for, like, a year until it dies, and then I'm giving you sadness and guilt.

Chelsea Cain

me you hate people

People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious.

Chelsea Cain

shoulder your you people

Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don't have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office.

Chelsea Cain

me waiting work home

I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer, with dialogue, attribution, action, objects in the scene, setting... It can be sometimes that delineated.

Chelsea Cain

think action writing sometimes