Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.

To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.

…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.