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.

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

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

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

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

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

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