She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.

Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!

You should know how terrible a power belief is, especially in the wrong hands -- and how do you tell which hands are wrong? Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow.

Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.

You do have the idea of being ‘just good friends?’” He gave her a sideways look. “For so high and honorable an estate,” Roshaun said, “ ‘just’ seems a poor modifier to choose.