The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.

And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.

Fred Saberhagen was alive when born. He means to continue.