Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.

All of my books tend to be about things going on in labs that you wouldn't really expect.

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