No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

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

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.

Biggest influence: my mother.

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.