My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

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.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.