Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.

My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.