From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

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

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.

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

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.

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

I really fell in love with Africa.