Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
Suspense is worse than disappointment.
I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.
I think suspense is a big thing.
What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing.
The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.
To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense.
There is no suspense in inevitability.