Goodreads asked Richard Thomas:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Richard Thomas Maybe my path to becoming a writer. I started later in life, at the age of 40. I woke up one day unhappy with my advertising career and decided to take a class, with author Craig Clevenger, after seeing the movie Fight Club (the book written by Chuck Palahiuk). In that class I wrote a story, "Stillness," that Craig encourage me to send out, which ended up in Shivers VI (Cemetery Dance) alongside Stephen King and Peter Straub, amongst others. Later, I would edit an anthology with Chuck, Burnt Tongues, that would be nominated for a Bram Stoker award.

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