But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write

My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel