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?

The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.

He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.

Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.