Don’t call me Lord Snow.” The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. “Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.

Trust is earned. Like gold.

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

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

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.