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

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

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.

She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.

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.

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

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.