J.L. Delozier

What inspired you to start writing?  Burnout and boredom. Seriously, though, I always loved to write – submitted my first sci-fi short story to Asimov’s Magazine when I was in elementary school! (It was kindly rejected.) Then I got busy with my medical training and career, and only after I was nearing middle age and retirement did I decide I’d damn well get that book written – I wasn’t getting any younger!   What was it about the horror genre that drew you to it?  I cut my teeth on sci-fi and Stephen King, so I naturally gravitate to horror.…