Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.