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

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.

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

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

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.