Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it touches upon inner journeys, it illuminates our collective and individual pasts, throws a focus beam on the present day, and presages the dangers and promises of the future.

Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.