Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

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

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.