As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.

the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.

I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

Remember the past - and await the future.

I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

Her bark is worse than her bite.