Bret Easton Ellis, the "American Psycho" and "Less Than Zero" author, has announced in a blog post that he's returning to writing novels after a fallow period during which he's been constantly in the news.

Ellis writes that the world has changed since his early novels captured the public consciousness, and "I started feeling the need to work my way through that transition—the world in which I used to write and publish novels, and the world we live in now." He also notes that his last novel, 2010's poorly received "Imperial Bedrooms," had been a conscious attempt to alienate himself from the form of the novel, "a condensed autobiographical noir I limped through."

In the years since "Bedrooms," Ellis wrote the forthcoming Lindsay Lohan film "The Canyons" and discovered the joys of Twitter, notoriously using the platform to bash director Kathryn Bigelow and accidentally broadcast his attempt to score drugs.

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