She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.

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.

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

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.

You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.

They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.