Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

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

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?