Chelsea Cain
Chelsea Cain
Chelsea Snow Cainis an American novelist and columnist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 February 1972
CountryUnited States of America
running ideas serial-killer
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...
north people portland town washed
I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.
books chose found projects scale work written
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.
cultural delicate expectation good mean women
I know that there's a cultural expectation that women be nurturing, delicate flowers. And I am. So delicate. But that doesn't mean I can't write a good, gory murder scene.
assume grad iowa people program school workshop
When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers' workshop MFA program at the University of Iowa. I didn't. I got a master's in journalism.
moving world care
Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.
drinking hands pregnant
You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant.
facts complicated retarded
Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.
people killing diets
There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.
people ugly attention
Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.
thinking
Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.
running fun 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.
sucker
I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.
covered unless
No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don't feel like I'm on vacation unless I'm dehydrated and covered with sunscreen.