Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing: yet you are the most mysterious woman I've ever met.

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

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

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

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.