text:  Why put so much of yourself into a killer? Yeah, that's a good question. I probably should have done it differently so that I'm not indicting myself. But that's the only way I've ever really known to write. My very first novel, I had no idea how to write a novel. But I quickly learned that a novel is you write 10 or 12 pages and you hit a wall. You cast about for what happens next. Maybe it takes 10 hours. Maybe it takes 10 weeks. And then you finally get the next 10 or 12 pages. Every time I hit that 10 or 12-page wall,