It’s always annoying when a creative person refuses to admit that their work is similar to, or influenced by, someone else’s. “So, it’s a movie about a kid who learns he has powers and he uses them to take down an evil empire lead by the father he never knew, and you say it’s nothing like Star Wars!?! Really!?!”
Thankfully, author C.J. Dotson doesn’t try my patience in the following email interview about her psychological horror novel The Cut (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), in which she admits that this story, which is set in a scary hotel, “Yeah, I don’t think I could have written a hotel horror story without thinking of The Shining, too.”
