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

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.

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

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

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

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.

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.