I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.

I had tears coming out of my eyes. And it was the characters that got me there.

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

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.