The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a not unreasonable term for the widening gap between the rich and poor that we're seeing.

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .

Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader.

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.