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

The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

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

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

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens