Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.

"Weese," she would whisper, first of all. "Dunsen, Chiswyck, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Gregor, Ser Armory, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei."

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

Every flight begins with a fall.

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

If? The word is when.