The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

Some doors are best left closed.

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

The Beauty raised her eyes, the only part of her that was truly beautiful.

I just need to rest, that’s all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

There are a number of things that I'm trying to get into the books. There's a meta-fictional aspect, if I may use that pretentious word, to writing anything. You're writing in the shadow of all the people that have gone before and, in a way, you're having a dialogue with them. As someone who's read J.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard and all the great fantasists before, this is almost my answer to them.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.