Litmocracy Interview

“I didn’t devise [Burke’s] world. It exists. It’s real. It’s out there, but most of the planet ignores it because it’s convenient. News stories come on every day about kids meeting horrible fates in Africa, in Somalia, in inner cities here, and people just turn the channel. I guess they think that’s what God made remotes for. That’s a large part of the problem. Like it or not, that world exists and has for centuries. Burke doesn’t seek out pedophiles, he seeks out predatory pedophiles and child abusers. There’s a big difference. Predatory pedophiles, by definition, have sexual urges they act upon towards children, emotional urges some [argue], but ones they act upon in a physical way. By force. By trickery. By any and all kinds of means. Burke found them and he killed them. I wanted to expose readers to a dark part of the world that exists, and I didn’t want them to be introduced to it by an angelic figure.” — Litmocracy.com, August 2, 2012
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Another Life

Flower came from inside Immaculata’s body; Michelle had taken Terry’s shivering little body into her arms and never let him go. That happened in the backseat of my car, as I was driving away from what I’d left of the pus–sack who’d been renting the kid out. Come from, come to—no difference. They’re both ours. Our blood. How you look at it doesn’t matter to us. Citizens think a trial verdict depends on the evidence; we know all that counts is who’s on the jury. Some of you get to visit our world, but none of you really see it. Some of you try too hard, stick your nose in too deep. Then you don’t get to leave.
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Terminal, A Killing Frost Authors Interview

“I like the idea of writers actually supporting each other for a change instead of kissing each other’s behinds for blurbs or stabbing other people in the back.” That’s Andrew Vachss, speaking about fellow author Michael A. Black in Dan Pearson’s article, published October 10, 2007, by the Pioneer Press Group.
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