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

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start

The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.

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

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible

I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!

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