A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.

In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.

In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.

Remember the movements that don't look like moving.

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.