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.

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

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

There was a time when the young of many clans joined together to make new clans.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

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.