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

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

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book

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

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes