I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said.

Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.