I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,” Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.

Timing is a sensitive thing.