I don't want to be a queen. I want to be the queen.

In my dreams, I kill him every night,' Robert admitted. 'A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves'.

For the night is dark and full of terrors.

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope of absolute good versus absolute evil, which was wonderful in the hands of J.R. Tolkien, became cliche and rote in the hands of the many Tolkien imitators that followed.

The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.