It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

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.

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

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

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.

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